We present a basic theoretical framework of ethnic identity, i.e., the level of immigrant's commitment to his or her host society as well as the immigrant's commitment to his or her home society. Our model can explain the emerging empirical literature which studies the effect of the immigrants'...

This paper presents an operationalization of a mixed Bourdieu–Mincer-type model that seeks to find evidence for individual and local cultural capital effects on human capital 'ability'. We aim to compare these effects for native workers and immigrants (as well as between immigrants themselves)...

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether...

We highlight that convergence in repeated averaging models commonly used to study cultural traits or opinion dynamics is not equivalent to convergence in Markov chain settings if transition matrices are time-varying. We then establish a new proof for the convergence of cultural traits in the...

I propose a model of cultural assimilation with endogenous social networks, idiosyncratic assimilation patterns and with an heterogenous persistence of cultural traits. I then propose a conceptual framework to measures cultural assimilation in heterogeneous societies, showing that the model is...

In this paper, I argue that cultural additivity mechanism could be the means of human survival and development. My point is based on two core works. The first is “Cultural additivity: behavioural insights from the interaction of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism in folktales”. In this...