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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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practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
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The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
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integration of migrants could be the primary driver of cultural participation and integration. …
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We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … individual-level economic, civic-political, and cultural integration outcomes for immigrants of the second generation with data … integration among children of immigrants in European societies. …
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We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … find large variation in Syrians’ social integration across German counties, and use a movers’ research design to document …
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Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...
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Utilizing subjective data to infer on fundamental issues of individual opinion is associated with severe conceptual and methodological problems. This paper addresses these problems and investigates the attitudes towards immigrants within a cross-country framework. To this end, we utilize data...
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-dimensional concept of the ethnosizer classifies immigrants into four states: integration, assimilation, separation and marginalization … well, but do not assimilate. Having some schooling is worse than no education for integration or assimilation. The … ; migrant assimilation ; migrant integration …
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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