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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

work more hours but are not given the opportunity), three measures of job satisfaction, overeducation and wages. We further …

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Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants

Carillo, Maria Rosaria; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, … - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity

Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2023

The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...

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Migration and Consumption

Misuraca, Roberta; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024

A scarce literature deals with the consumption implications of cultural assimilation and integration, ethnic clustering and diasporas, the marginal propensity to consume, home production and allocation of time, ethnic consumption, migration, and trade, as well as native consumption responses....

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Ethnic identity and educational outcomes

Randazzo, Teresa; Piracha, Matloob - 2024

university decreases if they have a weak Italian identity. We exploit gender heterogeneity finding that females are more …

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Is Self-Employment for Migrants? Evidence from Italy

Brunetti, Marianna; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2023

Using a unique Italian dataset covering the period 2004-2020, we assess the immigrant-native gap in entrepreneurship and investigate channels behind it. The data allows us to account for many observable characteristics as well as for risk aversion, which is usually not observed, yet crucial for...

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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.

Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019

This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...

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Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India

Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …

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COVID-19, Race, and Gender

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2021

The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...

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Social Identity and STEM Choice: Evidence from Higher Secondary Schooling in India

Kumar, Anand; Sahoo, Soham - 2021

This paper investigates the role of social identity, namely gender and caste of individuals, in stream choice at the …’s education significantly explain some portion of the caste-based gaps, but they do not explain the gender gap that persists even … in an intra-household comparison. We also test for the intersectionality of the overlapping identities of gender and …

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