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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

and therefore favor the socialization hypothesis. -- migration ; fertility ; socialization ; culture ; Germany …

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The effect of same-sex marriage legalization on interstate migration in the United States

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2019

affect the migration decisions of individuals, to the extent that those states approving same-sex marriage can be considered … less discriminatory. Results show that that legal reform permanently increased the migration flow of homosexuals moving to … driving our estimates since the migration flow of homosexuals is not limited to border or close states. Supplemental analysis …

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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper focuses on the role of home country's birth rates in shaping immigrants' fertility. We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and at different times. We find that women from countries...

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The Effect of Host Society Culture on Migrant Wage Discrimination: Approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012

Swiss context stems from two stylized facts showing that (i) political preferences on issues related to migration, asylum …

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Economic Discrimination and Cultural Differences as Barriers to Migrant Integration: Is Reverse Causality Symmetric?

Kohler, Pierre - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2012

This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does...

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Immigrant Fertility in Germany: The Role of Culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014

This paper focuses on the role of home country’s fertility culture in shaping immigrants’ fertility. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and in different years. The variation in total...

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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 …

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Why Do So Many Children of Immigrants Attend University? Evidence for Canada

Childs, Stephen - 2014

The children of Canadian immigrants from some source regions, Asia, Africa and China in particular, attend university at extraordinarily high rates. Most others participate at lower rates, but still compare favourably with non-immigrant Canadians. In this paper the Youth in Transition Survey is...

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Cut Off From Caregivers : The Children of Incarcerated Parents in Louisiana

Kirkland, Auriel; Jones, Victor M.; Blackburn, Cheyenne; … - 2021

An estimated 94,000 children in Louisiana have a parent who is behind bars, with devastating effects on children and families. The entire family serves this sentence. Parental incarceration is a growing epidemic. Nationally, one in 28 children experiences parental incarceration today, compared...

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Access to Post-Secondary Education Among the First and Second Generation Children of Canadian Immigrants

Finnie, Ross; Mueller, Richard - 2014

This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-secondary education (PSE) among the children of Canadian immigrants, including both (i) those who came to this country as immigrants themselves by age 15, and (ii) those who were born in Canada to...

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