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Economic strain, ethnic concentration and attitudes towards foreigners in the European Union

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2001

This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...

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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete …

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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What are migration networks?

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using …

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Herd effects or migration networks? : the location choice of Mexican immigrants in the US

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); Epstein, Gil S. (contributor) - 2002

on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the … legal status of the migrant and whether the migrant is a ?new? or a ?repeat? migrant. The network-externality effect has an …, or the inverse U shape of network effects leads to faulty conclusions about migrant behavior. -- herd effects ; networks …

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Enclaves, language and the location choice of migrants

Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...

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