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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'...
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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...
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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)...
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ethnic tensions that departs from these previous views. We show how the political culture of individual rights may be rooted … in the macro-economic conditions of market-oriented economic development, and how a culture of markets can account for …
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is based on the conceptualization of the culture of a person as a set of cultural values and attitudes, represented as an … n-dimensional tuple in Euclidean space. The culture of a person is formed through social learning and imitation from … large ("oblique transmission"). Parents might choose a "displayed culture" that does not coincide with their true culture …
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