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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2014
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398308
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Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?
Belton, Willie; Huq, Yameen; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we explore the relationship between ethnic fractionalization and social capital. First, we test for time differences in the impact of ethnic fractionalization on social capital using U.S. data from 1990, 1997 and 2005. Subsequently we examine the data for evidence of the conflict,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886145
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Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration
Guzi, Martin; Huber, Peter; Mikula, Stepan - 2019
We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration. This event involved expulsion of ethnic Germans and almost complete depopulation of an area of a country and its rapid resettlement by 2 million Czech inhabitants. Results based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012141173
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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293233
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and … individual trust. Our results indicate that trust in the home country contributes to the trust of second generation immigrants in … crime rate, economic inequality, race inequality and segregation by country of origin, also affect trust. Evidence for first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010785487
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Family ties and political participation
Alesina, Alberto; Giuliano, Paola - 2009
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269028
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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010
Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015
such as trust, is negatively related to local economic performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288193
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329180
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Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Hüseyin Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
The fear and hatred of others who are different has economic consequences because such feelings are likely to translate into discrimination in labor, credit, housing, and other markets. The implications range from earnings inequality to intergenerational mobility. Using German data from various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352302
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Adherence to Cultural Norms and Economic Incentives: Evidence from Fertility Timing Decisions
Chabé-Ferret, Bastien - 2016
I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing decisions of second generation migrant women to France and the US. Only the probability to have three or more children increases with the home country fertility norm, whereas the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559697