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Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin - 2022

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...

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Talents and Cultures : Immigrant Inventors and Ethnic Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration

Campo, Francesco; Mendola, Mariapia; Morrison, Andrea; … - 2022

We investigate the importance of co-ethnic networks and diversity in determining immigrant inventors’ settlements in the US by following the location choices of thousands of them across counties during the Age of Mass Migration. To do so, we combine a unique USPTO historical patent dataset on...

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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...

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New evidence on son preference among immigrant households in the United States

Duan, Huiqiong; Hicks, Daniel L. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/14, pp. 1-28

This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant … between immigrant parents is associated with stronger gender preferences. Third, comparing male and female migrants who marry …, child gender preferences are strongest for migrants who arrive after childhood but do not appear to diminish with the …

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes....

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Native-immigrant gaps in educational and school-to-work transitions in the second generation : the role of gender and ethnicity

Baert, Stijn; Heiland, Frank; Korenman, Sanders - 2014

We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work … transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find … is true for residual gaps in the transition to work: native males are 30% more likely than comparable Turkish males to be …

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Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation : The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Baert, Stijn - 2015

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror, Fear and Social Assimilation of Turkish Immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

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Justice Delayed is Assimilation Denied : Rightwing Terror and Immigrants' Assimilation in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2019

In 2011 a German right-wing extremist group was exposed in the media as having killed individuals of Turkish ethnicity …

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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants : Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Angelini, Viola - 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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