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Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
Fouarge, Didier; Özer, Merve Nezihe; Seegers, Philipp - 2019
This paper investigates the relationship between Big Five personality traits and individuals' intentions to migrate in countries that vary in their culture. Using data collected from university students in Germany, we find that extraversion and openness are positively associated with migration...
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Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
Fouarge, Didier; Özer, Merve Nezihe; Seegers, Philipp - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945651
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Personality traits, migration intentions, and cultural distance
Fouarge, Didier; Özer, Merve Nezihe; Seegers, Philipp - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011948511
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Culture, selection, and international migration : conference paper
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2014 - Preliminary
higher genetic distance leads to a higher selectivity of migrants. This reveals that cultural traits are an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010485255
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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas : an identity economics approach
Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 1/1, pp. 1-20
Besides effects on economic well-being, migration of people with distant cultural backgrounds may also have large effects on people’s cultural identity. In this paper, the identity economics of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) is applied to migration. Accordingly, it is assumed that the utility of...
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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?
Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877
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Self-employment and migration
Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019
There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118294
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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration
Ruhose, Jens - 2015
-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on … decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects … natives. Beside the motivation of the topic, the introduction in Chapter 1 of the volume summarizes three studies of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742892
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA Countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761616
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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764653