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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...
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Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely …
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This paper studies the respective influence of intergenerational transmission and the environment in shaping individual trust. Focusing on second generation immigrants in Australia and the United States, we exploit the variation in the home and in the host country to separate the effect of the...
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A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families' economic progression. This paper is a first attempt to explore whether immigrant parents' ethnic identity affects the next generation's human capital accumulation in the host country. Empirical results based on data...
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-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search … process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …
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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …
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social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …
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This paper examines the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for non-western migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation non-western migrants. On the other hand, the …
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mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics - among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants … significantly hamper the out-mobility of all individuals. The impact of family ties is the largest for Turkish and Moroccan migrants. …
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