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Cultural Differences, Assimilation and Behavior : Player Nationality and Penalties in Football

De Luca, Giacomo; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2012

We examine the impact of a different cultural background on individual behavior, focusing on penalties in football … matches of southern European and northern European football players in the English Premier League. Southern European football … players collect on average more football penalties than their British colleagues and northern European football players …

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Cultural Differences, Assimilation and Behavior : Player Nationality and Penalties in Football

De Luca, Giacomo; Schokkaert, Jeroen; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2012

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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper

Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary

This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...

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The role of culture on self-employment

Marcén, Miriam - 2013

account for the differences in entrepreneurial spirit across countries. This paper explores the role of culture in self … differences in self-employment rates by country of origin as evidence of the effect of culture. Using this epidemiological … approach, we find that culture has quantitatively significant effects the self-employment decision. …

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Comfort and conformity : a culture-based theory of migration

Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views). Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally...

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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …

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Ethnic identity and work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Ethnosizing immigrants: a theoretical framework

Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2014

called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …, and ethnic selfidentification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration …

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What is cultural fit? : from cognition to behavior (and back)

Mobasseri, Sanaz; Goldberg, Amir; Srivastava, Sameer B. - 2017

How people fit into social groups is a core topic of investigation across multiple sociological subfields, including education, immigration, and organizations. In this chapter, we synthesize findings from these literatures to develop an overarching framework for conceptualizing and measuring the...

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Ethnic diversity and well-being

Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie; Giulietti, Corrado; … - 2016

This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...

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