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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian - 2012
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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Culture and the Historical Process
Nunn, Nathan - 2012
This article discusses the importance of accounting for cultural values and beliefs when studying the process of historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described. Because cultural traits evolve based upon relative...
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Bend it Like Beckham : Ethnic Identity and Integration
Bisin, Alberto - 2010
We propose a theoretical framework to study the determinants of ethnic and religious identity along two distinct motivational processes which have been proposed in the social sciences: cultural conformity and cultural distinction. Under cultural conformity, ethnic identity is reduced by...
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Social Progress and Corporate Culture
Gorton, Gary B. - 2019
Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (the embrace of anti-racist and anti-sexist norms, for example) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. Sometimes the market fails to adapt on its own and government must pass legislation to secure changes in...
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Ancestry, Language and Culture
Spolaore, Enrico - 2015
We explore the interrelationships between various measures of cultural distance. We first discuss measures of genetic distance, used in the recent economics literature to capture the degree of relatedness between countries. We next describe several classes of measures of linguistic, religious,...
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The Language Ability of U.S. Immigrants : Assimilation and Cohort Effects
Carliner, Geoffrey - 2021
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census of Population to examine the English language skills of natives …
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Language Training and Refugees' Integration
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben; Foged, Mette; … - 2022
We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after … effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of … working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform …
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Culture and Language
Lazear, Edward P. - 2021
Common culture and common language facilitate trade between people. Minorities have incentives to become assimilated … and to learn the majority language so that they have a larger pool of potential trading partners. The value of … less likely when an immigrant's native culture and language is broadly represented in his new country. Also, when …
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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict : Hindu-Muslim Violence in India
Mitra, Anirban - 2013
We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...
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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity : Evidence from Us Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P; Peri, Giovanni - 2022
What are the economic consequences to U.S. natives of the growing diversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected by cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of U.S. residents? We document in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens...
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