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The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....
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We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …
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We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We … with the hypothesis that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission from immigrants to …
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