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Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non- Mexicans are substantially more … educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans … or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican spouses of intermarried Mexican Americans possess relatively high …
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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican … increased returns to human capital for Mexican-origin workers who were born and educated in the United States. Even if we … fluency that occur between the second and third generations do not appear to raise the earnings of Mexican Americans any …
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Migrant Ethnic Identity: Concept and Policy Implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822311
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Acculturation Identity and Educational Attainment
Nekby, Lena; Rödin, Magnus; Özcan, Gülay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent educational attainment. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...
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Gender, Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie; Gataullina, Liliya; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The European Union’s strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority ethnic groups, in particular among immigrants. This study examines the potential of immigrants’ identification with the home and host country ethnicity to explain that...
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INTEGRATION POLICY TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS: CURRENT EXPERIENCE
Bureiko, Nadiia - In: CES Working Papers 4(1) (2012) March, pp. 12-23
In the contemporary world the intensity of the immigration movements is constantly increasing. Countries which experience great immigrant flows are facing numerous problems which should be solved. The article studies the current immigration flows in EU countries, the United States of America and...
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Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity
Constant, Amelie F.; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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Cultural Distance, Immigrants' Identity, and Labour Market Outcomes
Islam, Asadul; Raschky, Paul Anton - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
Consistent estimates of the effect of ethnic identity on labor market outcomes is complicated by the endogenous relationship between performance on the labor market and attitudes towards ethnic identity. This paper uses measures of genetic and linguistic distance between an immigrants' home and...
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National Identity and Immigrants’ Assimilation in France
Langevin, Gabin; Vincent, Pascaline - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Management (CREM) - 2013
Determination and changes of immigrants' identity resulting from intercultural contacts impact their socio-economic integration. To precisely assess individuals’ identity, we propose a continuous index which aims to overcome interpretation troubles faced by usual measures of ethnic identity....
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Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the Western world, multiculturalism has become the way to view and form "nationhood," igniting the interest to understand and model identity. The complexity of identity formation, however, has been firm and ethnic and national identities have been deviating more and more. In this paper, we...
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