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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants’ religiosity
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive – whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224804
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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2022
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938780
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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2021
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657847
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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country
Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021
Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622728
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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country
Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021
Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012623834
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How do new immigration flows affect existing immigrants? : evidence from the refugee crisis in Germany
Deole, Sumit S.; Huang, Yue - 2020
We apply difference-in-differences regressions to study the impact of the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany on the culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle- Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238735
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School friendship networks, homophily and multiculturalism : evidence from European countries
Campigotto, Nicola; Rapallini, Chiara; Rustichini, Aldo - 2020
This paper investigates the determinants of school friendship networks among adolescents, proposing a model of network formation and estimating it using a sample (CILS4EU) of about 10,000 secondary school students in four countries: England, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. We test the idea...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306145
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Cultural Integration in Europe
Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195973
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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants' religiosity ; a comparative study of Europe and the United States
Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013
This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive - whether immigrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209718
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Why Do Some Individuals Fear Immigration More than Others? Evidence from Europe
Kovacic, Matija; Orso, Cristina - 2018
In this paper we show that individual preferences for immigration are also shaped by specific non-economic factors. In order to account for non-economic differences in a broader sense, we rely on linguistic relativity hypothesis according to which differences in grammatical structures may induce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014129057