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This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio …-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at … destination country. In addition, the fertility rates of source countries explain a large proportion of fertility differentials …
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This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country’s culture affects … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185781
This paper focuses on the role of the home country’s birth rates in shaping immigrant fertility. We use the German … Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries … variable. The results favor the socialization hypothesis holding that immigrants follow childbearing norms dominant in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360142
This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage … discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the … Swiss context stems from two stylized facts showing that (i) political preferences on issues related to migration, asylum …
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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...
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causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension … opportunities and discrimination? Chapter 3 investigates the effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination. It … examines whether the markedly more conservative political preferences on issues related to migration and asylum of voters in …
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We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females’ and by their husband’s origin countries. We also show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934385
We investigate the role of culture in explaining economic outcomes at individual level analyzing how cultural values … labor market is affected both by the culture of females' and by their husband's origin countries. We also show that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959647
attainment and gender gap). As women play a key role in the transmission of cultural traits and the socialization of the second …, early marriage, cohabitation, fertility, divorce) and in the labor market (labor force participation). Finally, this paper … more, to gender-related behaviors in endogamous couples, it appears that migration-related gender issues and migration …
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This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
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