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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls
Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020
their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we … consequence of reducing their well-being, since identity-concerned parents will constrain their daughter's choices. The model can … self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179844
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The Social Integration of International Migrants: Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
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Trust and racial income inequality : evidence from the U.S.
Tesei, Andrea - 2015
Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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Do Minorities Misrepresent Their Ethnicity to Avoid Discrimination?
Kudashvili, Nikoloz - 2019
Discrimination against minorities is pervasive in many societies, but little is known about minorities' strategies to avoid being discriminated against. In our trust game among 758 high-school students in the country of Georgia, ethnic Georgian trustors discriminate against the ethnic Armenian...
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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants : Evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to determine the immigrants' ethnic identity, i.e. the degree of … ethnic identity on the immigrants' employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … principal component analysis, this paper proposes two richer measures of ethnic identity than the ones used in the literature …
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Diversity and discrimination in the classroom
Anderberg, Dan; Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; … - 2024
What makes diversity unifying in some settings but divisive in others? We examine how the mixing of ethnic groups in German schools affects intergroup cooperation and trust. We leverage the quasi-random assignment of students to classrooms within schools to obtain variation in the type of...
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies : Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Stepan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities …
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded businesses over time relative to native-founded companies. Our work quantifies immigrant contributions to new firm creation in a wide variety of fields and using multiple definitions. While significant...
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Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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