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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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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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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 …

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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...

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Birthplace diversity and economic prosperity

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces. This new index is then decomposed into a size (share of foreign born) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component and is available for 1990 and 2000 disaggregated...

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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 work

Constant, Amelie - 2014

remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic …

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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...

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Border apprehensions and federal sentencing of Hispanic citizens in the United States

Bertoli, Simone; Laouénan, Morgane; Valette, Jérôme - 2023

We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of illegal aliens are apprehended along the southwest border. Apprehensions can increase the salience of...

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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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