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Minorities' claims for rights increasingly clash with majorities who wish to retain and defend "national" cultural and religious traditions. Debates around minarets in Switzerland, burqas in France, Saint Nicolas' companion "Black Pete" in the Netherlands, and about freedom of speech versus...
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be … bridge construction induced marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women …
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using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating … grooms. Guided by a model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and … marriage-related migration (not economic migration) among rural women, but only for those women coming from families above a …
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants' ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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