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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
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separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic … performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
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This paper studies the effects of local threat on cultural and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477650
This paper documents the effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and subjective well-being (SWB). Combining data on SWB and health from the European Social Survey (ESS) with data on 3G and overall Internet expansion (ITU and Collins Batholomew), I find that immigrants'...
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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 Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
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The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...
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identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that influence the … identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist … attacks on the process of identity formation and the employment outcomes of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Using longitudinal …
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identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that in uence the … identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist … attacks on the process of identity formation and the employment outcomes of Turkish immigrants in Germany. Using longitudinal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159277
The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes …. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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