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The Struggle of Becoming Established in a Deprived Inner-City Neighbourhood

May, David - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a use-ful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dort-mund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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Bridges or buffers? Motives behind immigrants' religiosity

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - In: IZA Journal of Migration 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 immigrants'...

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The local environment shapes refugee integration: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - 2017

integration of the eight million expellees who arrived in West Germany after World War II. We first document that integration …

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Do equal rights for a minority affect general life satisfaction?

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Nilsson, Therese - 2017

While previous research examines how institutions matter for general life satisfaction and how specific institutions embodying equal rights for gay people matter for the life satisfaction of gays, we combine these two issues to analyze how the latter type of institutions relates to general life...

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Do Immigrants Integrate Out of Poverty in Norway

Galloway, Taryn Ann - 2006

In light of the riots and unrest among immigrants in France during the fall of 2005, the question of how immigrants are faring with respect to a certain minimum in society is both a timely and pertinent question for a number of European countries. In Norway, the prevalence of poverty is...

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The Labor Market Integration of Immigrant Men and Women

Galloway, Taryn Ann - 2006

Out of necessity, the earliest studies of immigrants' performance in the labor market in Western countries focused solely on men. However, as the employment rates of women in Western countries rise and approach those of men, questions about the labor market adjustments of immigrant women also...

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Economic and Social Perspectives of Immigrant Children in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2001

Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as improvements in day care provision for children....

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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Gender, source country characteristics and labor market assimilation among immigrants: 1980 - 2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2008

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the … host country before child birth matters, which implies that the outcomes of the social integration process are inherited …. Inherited integration has a particularly strong impact on the marriage patterns of females. …

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