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Immigration is a crucial issue in contemporary politics, and attitudes towards immigration are highly dispersed in many … countries. We treat individuals' immigration friendliness (IF) as a feature of their self-image or identity and hypothesize that …, similar to other pro-social self-images, greater immigration friendliness is associated with greater subjective well …
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design effective post-immigration policies. …
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Previous studies on the determinants of attitudes toward immigration can be classified into those that take a … utilitarian perspective, focusing on individuals’ perceptions of real-world impacts of immigration, and those that look at … immigration attitudes from the point of view of ideological orientation, focusing on broad political norms and values. While …
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and discrimination? How legitimate are claims arguing migrants are economically discriminated because they don't integrate … economic discrimination and cultural differences (cultural distance), the findings of this paper show that, at the aggregate … level, population groups facing higher economic discrimination are culturally more distant from the natives. Muslim …
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We examine the consequences, of integrating large minorities into productivity-relevant majority ethno-linguistic norms, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social gains by: (a) facilitating economic interaction, and (b)...
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I present a theory of assimilation in a heterogeneous society composed of two groups with distinct social norms and unequal statuses. Members of the group with a relatively disadvantaged status face an incentive to assimilate, embracing the norms of the more advantaged group. The cost of...
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Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and reinforce traditional views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in financial inclusion, we draw on data for 117 countries in the...
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Refugees in Germany perceive discrimination due to their country of origin in various life dimensions, which can … perceive discrimination on the labor market, at educational institutions, on the housing market, with public authorities, and … in daily life. The results show that perceived discrimination increased in all observed dimensions between 2019 and 2020 …
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A common perception about immigrant assimilation is that association with natives necessarily speeds the process by which immigrants become indistinguishable from natives. Using 2000 Census data, this paper casts doubt on this presumption by examining the effect of an immigrant's marriage to a...
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This paper explores cultural integration paths of eight migrant groups in Switzerland. It specifically analyzes the evolution of objective behaviors and subjective attitudes of migrants from the first to the second generation. In order to deepen the analysis, the cultural integration of migrants...
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