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Happiness in the dual society of urban China:Hukou identity, horizontal inequality and heterogeneous reference

Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - 2008

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, 'born?urban residents, and 'acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...

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Happiness in the dual society of urban China:Hukou identity, horizontal inequality and heterogeneous reference

Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, "born?urban residents, and "acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...

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Learning from the origins

Yarkin, Alexander - 2023

international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants …

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Happiness in the Dual Society of Urban China: Hukou Identity, Horizontal Inequality and Heterogeneous

Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, gbornh urban residents, and gacquiredh urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...

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Identity, Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from Urban China

Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2010

This paper presents the impact of income inequality on the subjective wellbeing of three different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, gbornh urban residents, and gacquiredh urban residents who had changed their hukou...

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Chapter 12. The Refugee/Asylum Seeker

Chin, Aimee; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 585-658). 2015

This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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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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Migration and cultural change

Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically - and from … a global viewpoint - whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries … support migration-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to …

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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria

Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Thomas - 2020

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

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