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Matching on gender and sexual orientation

Ciscato, Edoardo; Goussé, Marion - 2024

We study the mating patterns of non-heterosexual individuals, who represent a significant and increasing portion of the population, particularly among the youth. We estimate a multidimensional matching model of the marriage market where partner's gender is endogenously chosen conditional on the...

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Does Intermarriage Pay Off? A Panel Data Analysis

Nottmeyer, Olga - 2010

Taking advantage of the panel structure of the data, the impact of intermarriage on labor market productivity as measured by earnings is examined. Contrarily to previous studies which rely on instrumental variable techniques, selection issues are addressed within a fixed effects framework. The...

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Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life

Clark, Andrew E. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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Belonging or estrangement: The European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity

Prömel, Christopher - 2022

This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …

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Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Satisfaction with the Neighborhood in Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Tsertvadze, Georgi - 2011

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study examines the relationship between immigrant residential segregation and immigrants' satisfaction with the neighborhood. The estimates show that immigrants living in segregated areas are less satisfied with the neighborhood. This is...

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Ethnic Residential Segregation and Immigrants' Perceptions of Discrimination in West Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2011

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated residential areas are more likely to report discrimination because of their ethnic background. This applies to both segregated areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same...

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Parental ethnic identity and educational attainment of second-generation immigrants

Schüller, Simone - 2012

- even controlling for differences in ethnicity, family background and years-since-migration. Additional tests show that the …

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Exposure to past immigration waves and attitudes toward newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration of refugees? To answer this question, we investigate attitudes toward newcomers among natives and previous immigrants. In areas that in the 1990s received higher inflows of...

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Migrant's pursuit of happiness. The impact of adaption, social comparison and relative deprivation: Evidence from a "natural" experiment

Melzer, Silvia Maja; Muffels, Ruud J. - 2012

are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves (that is … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …

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Ethnic Concentration and Language Fluency of Immigrants in Germany

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010

Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

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