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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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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

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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 in the early 2000. The press coverage highlighted the inability of authorities to name perpetrators sooner. Authorities were criticized for (alleged) institutional racism. In...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Social Identity and Preferences

Benjamin, Daniel J. - 2008

We provide evidence that time and risk preference norms tied to social identities help shape observed U.S. demographic patterns in economic outcomes. We identify the marginal effect of norms by measuring how laboratory subjects' choices change when an aspect of social identity is made salient....

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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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Thanks Dad : New Evidence on Son Preference among Immigrant Households in the U.S

Duan, Huiqiong - 2019

This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant populations in the United States using Census and ACS data. We first confirm existing evidence of son preference among immigrant populations from South East Asia documented across...

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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Fulford, Scott - 2017

The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-samples to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry composition of the population of U.S....

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Do Common Inherited Beliefs and Values Influence CEO Pay?

Ellahie, Atif - 2017

We use the ethnicity of CEOs across 31 countries as a proxy for their common inherited beliefs and values and find an ethnicity effect in CEO variable pay. We find that the ethnicity effect in variable pay is not driven by the ethnicity effects in corporate policy decisions, and that changes in...

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Ethnic Diversity and Trust : New Evidence from Australian Data

Mendolia, Silvia - 2015

an individual's local and general trust. A wide literature across economics and sociology has recognised the importance … of trust in facilitating economic growth and development and it is therefore important to investigate elements of social … organisation that encourage or inhibit the development of trust. We use fixed effects and instrumental variable regression and …

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