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Sampling Recently Arrived Immigrants in the UK: Exploring the effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling
Frere-Smith, Tom; Luthra, Renee; Platt, Lucinda - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2014
Surveying recently arrived immigrants in countries lacking a population register poses many challenges. We describe our adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain-referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had arrived in the UK within the previous 18 months....
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Seconda generazione nei paesi di nuova e vecchia immigrazione: integrazione scolastica e capitale socio-economico della famiglia d’origine
Giannetti, Marilena; Mariani, Rama Dasi - Dipartimento di Economia e Diritto, Facoltà di Economia - 2015
La forte ondata migratoria, che ha interessato molte economie dell’Europa occidentale a partire dalla fine del secolo scorso, ha posto numerosi paesi di destinazione, fino ad allora caratterizzati da tassi positivi di emigrazione, di fronte a nuove sfide per l’integrazione degli immigrati....
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Economic Discrimination and Cultural Differences as Barriers to Migrant Integration: Is Reverse Causality Symmetric?
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012
This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Gataullina, Liliya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …
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Naturalization Proclivities, Ethnicity and Integration
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124484
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Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is …
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 28 (2013) C, pp. 62-70
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …
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Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler (Cohen), Odelia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
, and ethnic self-identification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration …
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The Impact of Social Systems and their Coordination on Economic Migration
Tepperová, Jana; Klazar, Stanislav - In: Politická ekonomie 2012 (2012) 4, pp. 505-522
The existing empirical studies examined the impact of different variables, such as common language, economic, cultural and geographical factors, on migration. However, none of the studies deals with the social security systems including their coordination as a relevant explanatory factor. The...
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