This study examines the role of historically defined social identity in human capital development over time by focusing …

This study investigates the relationship between individuals' social identity and their future aspirations in a … poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest …

state of West Bengal in India. Our objective is to study the dominant social identity and identity assimilation of … religious affiliation plays a more dominant role than the Indian nationality affiliation in the identity of refugees. Further …, we find suggestive evidence of identity assimilation among individuals with a refugee background. …

Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …

threshold. The identification results show that, under the very strong assumption that the change in the probability of … Interview Survey, we apply this new identification strategy to evaluate the causal effect of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on …

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs with higher average wages and …

This study empirically investigates how economic integration influences individuals' national identity. Due to …, we find that the rising investment in China has strengthened Taiwanese identity and has reduced the probability of voting …

This chapter introduces identity utility to the study of (un)employment and (un)happiness. The concept is described in … the loss of identity utility relative to other nonmonetary consequences of joblessness, such as fewer social contacts and … unaffected, which points to a major relevance of the loss of identity. This view is corroborated further by studies on the …