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Britishness and identity assimilation among the UK's minority and majority ethnic groups
Nandi, Alita; Platt, Lucinda - 2014
Public and academic debate has revealed concern with the extent and implications of national identification among minority groups in Western societies. In this paper we present new analysis of Understanding Society that expands the limited evidence on minority identification. Drawing on Berrys...
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Ethnic Minority Immigrants and Their Children in Britain
Dustmann, Christian - 2010
This paper investigates educational attainment and economic performance of ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain, in comparison to white British born. We find that ethnic minority immigrants and their children are on average better educated in comparison to their British born...
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A longitudinal study of migration propensities for mixed ethnic unions in England and Wales
Feng, Zhiqiang; Ham, Maarten van; Boyle, Paul J.; Raab, … - 2012
Most studies investigating residential segregation of ethnic minorities ignore the fact that the majority of adults live in couples. In recent years there has been a growth in the number of mixed ethnic unions that involve a minority member and a white member. To our knowledge, hardly any...
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Social inclusion and levels of urbanisation : does it matter where you live?
Whelan, Adele; Devlin, Anne; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023
Are individuals living in distinct urban or rural settings more likely to experience barriers to social inclusion? If so, what are the nature of the barriers that they face? Using a unique administrative dataset for Ireland's dominant social inclusion programme, this paper examines the effect of...
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Do English Skills Affect Muslim Immigrants' Economic and Social Integration Differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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International migration and the economics of language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2014
international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …
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Sampling recently arrived immigrants in the UK : exploring the effectiveness of respondent driven sampling
Frere-Smith, Tom; Luthra, Renee; Platt, Lucinda - 2014
adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain- referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had … conclude that RDS is unlikely to be suitable for accessing newly arrived migrants. However, in the absence of registers which …
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Are Muslim Immigrants Different in Terms of Cultural Integration?
Bisin, Alberto - 2007
Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776078
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Chapter 5. International Migration and the Economics of Language
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 211-269). 2015
destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …
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