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Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Bisin, Alberto - 2007
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...
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Social Networks and (Political) Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2021
This paper investigates the pathways through which immigrant communities (social networks) influence individual naturalization. Specifically, we examine the impact that a fraction of naturalized co-ethnics, residing in the same block as a new immigrant in New York City in 1930, have on the...
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Ethnic Networks and Employment Outcomes
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2021
ethnic group living nearby, the higher the employment rate of this ethnic group; (ii) this effect decays very rapidly with …
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Ethnic Identity and Labor-Market Outcomes of Immigrants in Europe
Bisin, Alberto; Patacchini, Eleonora; Verdier, Thierry; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2011
identity and employment prospects may depend on the type of integration and labor-market policies implemented in the country …
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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
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Intergenerational Assimilation of Minorities : The Role of the Majority Group
Itoh, Ryo; Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2022
We develop a dynamic model of assimilation of ethnic minorities that posits a tradeoff between higher productivity and wages and greater social distance to the culture of origin. We alsohighlight the importance of the assimilation of the past generation and the role of the majoritygroup in the...
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The Role of Social Networks in Cultural Assimilation
Verdier, Thierry - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015014
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How important is access to jobs? : Old question - improved answer
Åslund, Olof (contributor); Östh, John (contributor);  … - 2006
We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage … points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the …
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