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Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country's culture (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs) to those prevalent in their host country. For...
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We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …
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We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775564
Immigrants who have a better command of the host country's language are more likely to be employed and earn higher wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary benefits of mastering the language of the host country...
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strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
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strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …
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population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies the social space of the non …-migrants, we show why and how the non-migrants adjust their work effort and output in response to the migration-generated change in … their social space. When migration is negatively selective such that the least productive individual departs, the output of …
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1970s, we uncover evidence of intergenerational assimilation in education, earnings and fertility. …
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after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the …
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