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Intergenerational Transmission of Culture Among Immigrants : Gender Gap in Education Among First and Second Generations

NoghaniBehambari, Hamid; Tavassoli, Nahid; Noghani, Farzaneh - 2021

This paper illustrates the intergenerational transmission of the gender gap in education among first and second …-male difference in schooling is associated with 17.2% and 2.5% of a standard deviation increase in the gender gap among first and … second generations, respectively. Since gender perspective in education uncovers a new channel for cultural transmission …

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Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups

Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024

We study immigrant assimilation in terms of earnings dynamics and patterns of intergenerational transmission in permanent earnings by immigrant generation and neighborhood segregation levels. We estimate comparable sibling correlations across native and immigrant groups, but these seem to be...

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Which Mexicans Are white? : enumerator-assigned race in the 1930 Census and the socioeconomic integration of Mexican Americans

Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2023

The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race - predominantly "white" - to U.S.-born...

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The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting

Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques - 2024

In this paper, we present evidence from quantitative research over the last decade on how the social capital of individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the effects of spatial sorting and ethnic diversity on...

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The relationship between social capital and migrant integration, ethnic diversity, and spatial sorting

Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques - 2024

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Economic discrimination and cultural differences as barriers to migrant integration : is reverse causality symmetric?

Kohler, Pierre - 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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Linguistic and Cultural Assimilation as a Capital Investment Process

Marrone, James V. - 2019

I develop a learning-by-doing theory of cultural assimilation, in which an individual's cultural identity is determined by past investments in culture-specific capital. The model incorporates several empirically relevant aspects of assimilation that have been difficult to explain in past models....

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

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 acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2013

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 acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775564

A reluctance to assimilate

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2006

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

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