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Trust of second generation immigrants: Intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - 2013

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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Gender gaps in PISA test scores: The impact of social norms and the mother's transmission of role attitudes

González de San Román, Ainara; de la Rica, Sara - 2012

countries that take part in the evaluation programme. We find that differences in culture and social norms across countries and …

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of … locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the culture and the national identity of the host country. We use a search … culture or the immigrants take on the natives' culture. In the first case we will see new cultures developing and the local …

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Trust and cheating

Butler, Jeffrey V.; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2012

When we take a cab we may feel cheated if the driver takes an unnecessarily long route despite the lack of a contract or promise to take the shortest possible path. Is our decision to take the cab affected by our belief that we may end up feeling cheated? Is the behavior of the driver affected...

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Migrants, ethnicity and the welfare state

Epstein, Gil S. - 2012

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...

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Caught between Cultures: Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

traditional culture, whereas boys are allowed to take advantage of the opportunities that come with citizenship. Alternative …

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Work to live or live to work? Unemployment, happiness, and culture

Krause, Annabelle - 2011

Happiness drops when individuals become unemployed. The negative impact of the unemployment shock, however, may differ by cultural background. To test the hypothesis of a 'Teutonic work ethic', this paper takes advantage of Switzerland in its cultural diversity. By comparing different cultural...

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Welfare, labor supply and heterogeneous preferences: Evidence for Europe and the US

Bargain, Olivier; Decoster, André; Dolls, Mathias; … - 2011

Following the report of the Stiglitz Commission, measuring and comparing well-being across countries has gained renewed interest. Yet, analyses that go beyond income and incorporate non-market dimensions of welfare most often rely on the assumption of identical preferences to avoid the...

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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2011

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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