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The perceived lack of economic or social integration by immigrants in their host countries is a key concern in the public debate. Research shows that the option to naturalize has considerable economic and social benefits for eligible immigrants, even in countries with a tradition of restrictive...
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most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced …
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Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper …-in-differences design. We find that Italian churches reduced the social assimilation of Italian immigrants, lowering intermarriage …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and in particular labor market...
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This article summarizes three different strands of the literature that address the labor market effects of language-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of literacy as the ability to productively use written...
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …
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survey data this study analyzes assimilation of immigrants' mental health over time. Therefore, this study contributes to the … literature since previous literature has focused primarily on the assimilation of immigrants' physical health status. We find … australischen Haushaltsdaten untersucht die vorliegende Studie die Assimilation psychischer Gesundheit von Immigranten über die Zeit …
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Based on a 1% sample of the German population, we study how fertility rates in the country of origin-a proxy for cultural imprint-influence the fertility outcomes of first- and second-generation female immigrants. We use both total fertility rates in the year of migration and a new measure of...
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The percentage of poor among immigrants to Norway is much higher than the percentage among the native population so that immigrant status and ethnic origin may help to explain to some degree the continuing existence of poverty in Norway, an affluent country known for its relatively low income...
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