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Is religiosity of immigrants a bridge or a buffer in the process of integration? A comparative study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2012
sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of … religious landscape of Europe and of the United States and projections for the future; (ii) religiosity of immigrants (in Europe … religiosity and integration different in Europe and in the United States, due to historical differences in the state …
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A factorial survey on the justice of earnings within the SOEP-pretest 2008
Sauer, Carsten; Liebig, Stefan; Auspurg, Katrin; Hinz, … - 2009
In the 2008 Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) Pretest, the factorial survey method was tested for the first time for use in the SOEP longitudinal study. In this paper, we describe the construction and application of the vignette module, which has its origins in the field of justice research and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269619
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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings
Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013
We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328998
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Young people's attitudes towards Muslims in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Otterbeck, Jonas - 2007
Since the 1950's, the Muslim population in Sweden has grown from just a few individuals to approximately 350,000 of which one third is of school age or younger. With the use of multiple regression technique, the principal objective of this study has been to clarify and examine young people's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268278
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Political economy of immigration in Germany: attitudes and citizenship aspirations
Kahanec, Martin; Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2007
This paper examines resident foreigners' interest in German citizenship. The study focuses on the roles played by attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners, intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and among foreigners themselves, and regional differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268335
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Attitudes towards immigrants, other integration barriers, and their veracity
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Opinion Survey 2007 we depict main trends in the integration situation of ethnic minorities in Europe in a comparative manner …
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Terrorism and Integration of Muslim Immigrants
Elsayed, Ahmed; de Grip, Andries - 2013
We study the effect that a series of fundamentalist-Islamic terrorist attacks in Europe had on the attitudes of Muslim …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319497
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Extremism within the family
Epstein, Gil S. - 2006
social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267992
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Ethnic sorting in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Latten, Jan - 2007
This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268497