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Refugees in Germany perceived higher discrimination in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Prömel, Christopher; Zinn, Sabine - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 17/18, pp. 119-127
Refugees in Germany perceive discrimination due to their country of origin in various life dimensions, which can negatively affect their integration into society. Using IAB-BAMF-SOEP survey data, this report analyzes to what extent refugees perceive discrimination on the labor market, at...
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Migration, Friendship Ties and Cultural Assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013292505
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174171
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Utilitarian and Ideological Determinants of Attitudes towards Immigration: Germany Before and After the "Migration Crisis"
Welsch, Heinz - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 141 (2021) 3, pp. 215-242
perceptions of immigration impacts are related to people's ideological position through identity-protective cognition, implying an …
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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 the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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Economic well-being and anti-semitic, xenophobic, and racist attitudes in Germany
Mocan, Naci; Raschke, Christian - 2014
consistent with the model of Glaeser (2005) on hate, and with that of Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2005) on identity in the utility …
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801401
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Utilitarian and ideological determinants of attitudes toward immigration : Germany before and after the "refugee crisis"
Welsch, Heinz - 2019
immigration attitudes rests mainly on the identity/homogeneity domain of ideological position rather than the equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967243