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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local...
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This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...
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, we find that while immigrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion, this is mostly to export the host country culture …
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Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …
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This study investigates the impact of ethnic identity on Albanian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Georgian, and Russian wages in Greece. Treating ethnic identity as a composite of language, cultural habits, ethnic-self identification, societal interaction, and future citizenship plans, the estimations...
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, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...
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With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process …
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identity, is constructed from information on the following elements: language, culture, societal interaction, history of …
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