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panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort …
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panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704320
predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first … whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …
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We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …
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remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic …
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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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focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a …
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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 work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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