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tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic identity as a potential influence on the homeownership decision, using a … suggests that immigrants with a stronger commitment to the host country are more likely to achieve homeownership for a given …
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This paper studies whether acculturation by immigrants and other minority groups is associated with economic integration in Canada. We examine immigrants’ participation in winter sports, particularly hockey, as a proxy for acculturation given that these sports are popular in Canada but are...
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more...
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The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a measure of the intensity of a person's ethnic identity, is constructed from information on the...
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This paper investigates post-2000 trends in homeownership rates in the US by immigrant status, race, and ethnicity …. Homeownership rates for most groups examined rose during the housing boom of the early and mid-2000s but fell during and after the … housing bust. By 2015 homeownership rates had fallen below year 2000 levels for most groups but not all. In particular, some …
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Recently, homeownership rates of migrants in Germany increased by more than 10 percentage points. To shed light on this … sharp increase, this paper investigates the change in homeownership rates of immigrant households in Germany between 1996 to … percent of the change in immigrant's homeownership rate within the first time period can be explained by characteristics …
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We provide evidence that Hispanic citizens receive significantly longer sentences than non-Hispanic citizens in the Federal Criminal Justice System in the United States when a higher number of illegal aliens are apprehended along the southwest border. Apprehensions can increase the salience of...
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considering various demographic and pre- and post-immigration characteristics. In addition, dramatic wage growth for fully … healthy Greek – as well as a European – immigration system should recognise labour immigration flows and the potential of … repeat immigration and evaluate the cornerstone features of ethnic identity …
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potentially important implications for post-immigration policies indicating that assimilation and integration policies may be …
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