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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity
Constant, Amelie; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023
The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data …s and 1970s we find that local co-ethnic concentration affects immigrants' ethnic identity. While residential ethnic … clustering strengthens immigrants' retention of an affiliation with their origin (minority identity), it weakens identification …
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Forced migration, staying minorities, and new societies : evidence from post-war Czechoslovakia
Grossmann, Jakub; Jurajda, Štěpán; Rösel, Felix - 2021
identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489627
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174171
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The dynamics of networks and homophily
Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen M.; Snowberg, Erik; … - 2023
We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences, and different network layers. At the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013486159
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568736
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Anthropometry of love - height and gender asymmetries in interethnic marriages
Belot, Michèle; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2009
Both in the UK and in the US, we observe puzzling gender asymmetries in the propensity to outmarry: Black men are more likely to have white spouses than Black women, but the opposite is true for Chinese: Chinese men are half less likely to be married to a White person than Chinese women. We...
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COVID-19 and mental health deterioration among BAME groups in the UK
Proto, Eugenio; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020
We use the UK Household Longitudinal Study and compare pre- (2017-2019) and post-COVID19 data (April 2020) for the same group of individuals to assess and quantify changes in mental health among ethnic groups in the UK. We confirm the previously documented average deterioration in mental health...
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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 …
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Underrepresentation, quotas and quality : a dynamic argument for reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282424
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Pure ethnic gaps in educational attainment and school to work transitions : when do they arise?
Baert, Stijn; Cockx, Bart - 2013
This article decomposes the observed gaps in educational attainment and school-to-work transitions between grandchildren of natives and immigrants in Belgium into (i) differences in observed family endowments and (ii) a residual "pure ethnic gap". It innovates by explicitly taking delays in...
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