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Measuring ethnic identity and its impact on economic behavior

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its … migration, and ethnic self-identification. A two-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies migrants into four states …

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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...

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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

Fertilitätskultur einen signifikanten Anteil der Fertilitätsunterschiede zwischen Einheimischen und Migranten erklärt und positiv mit …, welche besagt, dass die kulturelle Prägung des Ursprungslandes das Verhalten von Migranten dauerhaft beeinflusst. …

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Ethnic concentration and extreme right-wing voting behavior in West Germany

Dill, Verena - 2013

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and administrative data from 1996 to 2009, I investigate the question whether or not right-wing extremism of German residents is affected by the ethnic concentration of foreigners living in the same residential area. My results show a...

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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity

Prömel, Christopher - 2022

This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …

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Residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood in Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertsvadze, Georgi - 2011

segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are …-selection plays an important role in immigrant residential segregation. Our result holds true even when controlling for other …

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Do ethnic enclaves impede immigrants' integration? : evidence from a quasi-experimental social-interaction approach /

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2012

-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. -- immigrants ; integration …

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018 - Draft version: 31.10.2018

Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...

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