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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …

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The Female Vote and the Rise of AKP in Turkey

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - 2021

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...

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Female Migration : A Way Out of Discrimination

Ruyssen, Ilse - 2015

In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...

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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection

Krieger, Tim - 2015

This paper looks at the effect of the relatedness of two countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 main destination countries in 2000 and show that...

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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … transfers. For the economy at large, high-fertility unskilled immigrants and a low-fertility indigenous population result in …

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Dismantling the 'Jungle' : Migrant Relocation and Extreme Voting in France

Vertier, Paul - 2018

Can a small scale inflow of migrants affect electoral outcomes? We study whether the relocation of migrants from the Calais “Jungle” to temporary migrant-centers (CAOs) in France affected the results of the 2017 presidential election. Using an instrumental variables approach that relies on...

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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly skilled...

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Growing Up in Ethnic Enclaves : Language Proficiency and Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children

Danzer, Alexander - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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More Opportunity, More Cooperation? The Behavioral Effects of Birthright Citizenship on Immigrant Youth

Felfe, Christina - 2018

Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with racial, ethnic, or cultural differences, increases the social distance between individuals, which is widely believed to limit the scope of cooperation. A central question, then, is how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a...

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