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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society
Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924808
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Economic and cultural gaps among foreign-born minorities in Spain
de la Rica, Sara; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276401
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Naturalization and citizenship : who benefits? : liberalizing access to citizenship has labor market benefits for immigrants and can improve their assimilation
Gathmann, Christina - 2015
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that many immigrants fail to integrate economically. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive policies. First-generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429965
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355330
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Emigration of immigrants and measures of immigrant assimilation : evidence from Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; LaLonde, Robert John; Åslund, Olof - 2000
Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …. However, not adjusting for emigration leads to overestimating the rate of economic assimilation, for Nordic and OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588147
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119651
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974
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Immigrant Economic Assimilation: Evidence from UK Longitudinal Data between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2011
for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291981
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local human capital such a union creates in the form of improved knowledge about host country institutions, language and customs as well as access to native spouses’ networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008692077
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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!
Nekby, Lena - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2010
For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local human capital such a union creates in the form of improved knowledge about host country institutions, language and customs as well as access to native spouses’ networks and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727331