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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...
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Education, gender, religion, politics: what priorities for cultural integration policies in Switzerland?
Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2009
migration-related gender issues and migration-specific Òhousehold dynamicsÓ in the design of future cultural integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682921
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Marché du travail en revue - Juin 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
Selon le modèle économique normal de la criminalité, qui suppose que les gens prennent des décisions de façon rationnelle, en considérant le coût d’opportunité du crime et en tenant compte de la possibilité d’être pris et puni, on se pose la question de savoir si l’immigration...
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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the "standard" view that immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877
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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?
Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 2014
We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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Ethnic identity and immigrant homeownership
Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2007
Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011630741
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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas : an identity economics approach
Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 1/1, pp. 1-20
Besides effects on economic well-being, migration of people with distant cultural backgrounds may also have large … migration. Accordingly, it is assumed that the utility of both the immigrants and the native population encompasses economic … well-being and cultural identity. The migration effect on cultural identity depends, among others, on the distance between …
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The impact of cultural diversity on the German housing market
Bayar, Mehmet - 2016
This paper documents a positive impact of cultural diversity and cultural similarity on rental prices of the German districts for the years between 2004 and 2013. On the one hand, an increase of the Herfindahl index as a measure for cultural diversity of 0.1 would increase rents by over 12...
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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture
Kohler, Pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
examines whether the markedly more conservative political preferences on issues related to migration and asylum of voters in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111800