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Neighborhood Effects on Intergenerational Cultural Transmission
Hwang, Yujung - 2022
I estimate bounds on the effect of growing up in an ethnic enclave on various outcomes associated with second-generation immigrants' cultural assimilation. I use the two-sample estimator of Hwang(2021) to bound the omitted variable bias from unobservable parental cultural preference, which...
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie - 2013
, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086660
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Trust of Second Generation Immigrants : Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013
, that differences in trust levels between the two host countries increase with acculturation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160947
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Intergenerational Transmission of Fertility Patterns in Britain
Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2021
Recent studies by economists exploring the nexus between culture and fertility have focused on cultural transmission from the origin country rather than the origin family. Our paper extends this avenue of research by investigating how family-specific "cultural transmission" can affect fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317336
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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?
Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30
This paper studies the respective influences of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home country and in the host country to separate the effect...
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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-20
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant...
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Intergenerational Mobility and Self-Selection of Asylum Seekers in Germany
Kolb, Michael - 2019
We exploit a novel survey of recently arrived asylum seekers in Germany in order to estimate the degree of intergenerational mobility in education among refugees and compare it to the educational mobility of similar-aged individuals in their region of origin. The findings show that the refugees...
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Intergenerational Transmission of Culture Among Immigrants : Gender Gap in Education Among First and Second Generations
NoghaniBehambari, Hamid; Tavassoli, Nahid; Noghani, Farzaneh - 2021
This paper illustrates the intergenerational transmission of the gender gap in education among first and second …-male difference in schooling is associated with 17.2% and 2.5% of a standard deviation increase in the gender gap among first and … second generations, respectively. Since gender perspective in education uncovers a new channel for cultural transmission …
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Parental background matters : intergenerational mobility and assimilation of Italian immigrants in Germany
Bönke, Timm; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2015
We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against administrative data provided us by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530608
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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families
Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014
This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to...
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