-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national …

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 …

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

In this paper, we analyze the role of culture in determining whether, or not, an individual is a homeowner. We use data … driving our findings. Additionally, we present evidence of different mechanisms of transmission of culture (horizontal …

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We …

We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it … is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture … from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of …

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that … people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the …

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants’ ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of … ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …