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How Persistent is Life Satisfaction? Evidence From European Immigration

Berggren, Niclas - 2018

satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …

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Late 19th and Early 20th Century Native and Immigrant Body Mass Index Values

Carson, Scott A. - 2018

When traditional measures for health and economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, height and the body mass index (BMI) are now well-accepted measures that reflect net nutrition during economic development. To date, there is no study that compares 19th century BMIs of immigrants and US natives....

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International migration and net nutrition in the late 19th and early 20th centuries : evidence from prison records

Carson, Scott Alan - 2021

In migration studies, immigrant health is a concern before, during, and after migration. This study uses a large late 19th and early 20th century data set of over 20 US prisons to assess migrant net nutrition. Native-born individuals were taller and had the lowest BMIs. International immigrants...

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Do I stay because I am happy or am I happy because I stay? : life satisfaction in migration, and the decision to stay permanently, return and out-migrate

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2013

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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2013

the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a … large literature documenting the effects that migrants have on native wages, tax burden, unemployment, etc. However, very … little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives. This paper uses the …

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Social Deprivation and Exclusion of Immigrants in Germany

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Sinning, Mathias - 2021

This paper aims at providing empirical evidence on social exclusion of immigrants in Germany. We demonstrate that when using a conventional definition of the social inclusion index typically applied in the literature, immigrants appear to experience a significant degree of social deprivation and...

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Divided we stand : immigration attitudes, identity, and subjective well-being

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2017

Immigration is a crucial issue in contemporary politics, and attitudes towards immigration are highly dispersed in many countries. We treat individuals' immigration friendliness (IF) as a feature of their self-image or identity and hypothesize that, similar to other pro-social self-images,...

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How persistent is life satisfaction? : evidence from European immigration

Berggren, Niclas; Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian; … - 2018

satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824757

Refugees in Germany with children still living abroad have lowest life satisfaction

Gambaro, Ludovica; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schacht, Diana; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 42, pp. 415-425

Family strongly influences personal well-being-especially in the case of refugees, whose family members often remain in their homeland. This report is the first to closely examine the well-being and family structures of refugees who came to Germany between January 2013 and January 2016. It uses...

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Unsuccessful subjective well-being assimilation among immigrants : the role of faltering perceptions of the host society

Hendriks, Martijn; Burger, Martijn J. - 2018

their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the … predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions …

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