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Ethnic identity and work
Constant, Amelie - 2014
remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418958
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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation
Verdier, Thierry; Zenou, Yves - 2015
We develop a model where, in the first stage, minority individuals have to decide whether or not they want to assimilate to the majority culture while, in the second stage, all individuals (both from the majority and the minority group) embedded in a network have to decide how much effort they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336962
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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation
Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014
Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230516
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The educational attainment of second generation immigrants in the Netherlands
Ours, Jan C. van; Veenman, Justus - 2001
Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is related to their educational level and language...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401382
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic … performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229936
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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background
Drydakis, Nick - 2017
Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731892
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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity : conference paper
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2014
separate literature has also examined the cultural and ethnic identity of immigrants and how these affect their economic … performance and societal integration. However, an unexplored channel connects ethnic clustering with ethnic identity formation … of co-ethnic concentration for the minority identity and at very low levels of local concentration for the majority …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010486749
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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801401
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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930
Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454305
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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002
The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411093