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Immigrant influx and social cohesion erosion
Neymotin, Florence - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-29
If immigration causes a decrease in social cohesion, then it may also be an important contributing factor in the recent failure of financial institutions. The present analysis finds some evidence for a negative relationship between immigration and volunteering from the Current Population Survey...
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(Why) are immigrants unhappy?
Kóczán, Zsóka - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-25
Recent studies suggest that migrants may be less satisfied with their "new" lives than members of the host population …
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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11
We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...
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Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?
Weber, Rosa - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration … has received little attention in the literature. This paper studies how migrants' preferences for the home country change … intermarriage and three outcomes related to migrants' home country preference - intentions to return, remittances sent and actual …
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the …
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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The productivity of return migrants : the case of China’s "Sea Turtles"
Sun, Wei - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
This paper explores the productivity differential between return migrants (“Sea Turtles”) and non-migrants through a … capitalists are less productive than comparable non-migrants in targeting promising projects and/or providing value-added services …. Given that the VC industry is a useful laboratory in which to look at the performance of return migrants and China …
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality
Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32
At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....
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