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migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …
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This paper analyzes whether natives with a network abroad have a distinctive cultural stance compared to similar individuals without such connections within the same region. Using individual-level data on connectedness from the Gallup World Poll across 2,256 within-country regions over 148...
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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 … support migration-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to …
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the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …
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Immigrants have greater exposure to co-ethnics, leading to fewer incentives to learn the local culture and assimilate … through neighbourhood location choices and incentives to learn the local culture in the host country. Two equilibrium outcomes …
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culture and assimilate. The integration of new immigrants into host country culture is determined by the amount of exposure to …
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, highlighting potential differences between countries and between the European Union (EU) and non-EU migrants. The results highlight …-term process or "experienced" activity. The findings also show that in most cases, migrants do not attend the cultural activities … integration of migrants could be the primary driver of cultural participation and integration. …
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proposes to look at migrants' use of language, their feelings towards Switzerland, as well as their attitudes towards gender … ; migration ; culture ; integration ; Switzerland … evolution of objective behaviors and subjective attitudes of migrants from the first to the second generation. In order to …
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This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German … of fertility differentials between immigrants and German natives. The results suggest that home country's culture affects … Deutschland zum Zeitpunkt der Migration verwendet. Die Schätzergebnisse eines linearen Fixed-Effects-Ansatzes zeigen, dass …
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We explain persistent differences in cultural traits of immigrant groups with the presence of community leaders. Leaders influence the cultural traits of their community, which have an impact on the group's earnings. They determine whether a community will be more assimilated and wealthier or...
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