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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants : Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Angelini, Viola - 2014

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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Cross-country Differences in Homeownership : A Cultural Phenomenon?

Huber, Stefanie J.; Schmidt, Tobias - 2021

Cross-country differences in homeownership rates are large and persistent over time, with homeownership rates ranging … from 40% in Switzerland to 80% in Spain. This paper investigates whether culture is a driving factor of the homeownership … decision, and could thus explain part of the cross-country differences in homeownership rates. To isolate the effect of …

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Trust of second-generation immigrants : intergenerational transmission or cultural assimilation?

Moschion, Julie; Tabasso, Domenico - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-30

This paper studies the respective influences 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 country and in the host country to separate the effect...

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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

This paper focuses on the role of home country's fertility culture in shaping immigrants' fertility. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study completed fertility of first-generation immigrants who arrived from different countries and in different years. The variation in total...

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

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Immigrants' tolerance and integration into society

Berggren, Niclas; Ljunge, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2022

We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture that embodies tolerance towards people who are different....

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Multigenerational Transmission of Culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children’s culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

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Multigenerational transmission of culture

Spiro, Daniel - 2019

This paper explores intergenerational transmission of culture and the consequences of a plausible assumption: that people care not only for their children's culture but also for how their grand-children are raised. This departs from the previous literature which, without exception, assumes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973892

Religious & cultural leaders

Prummer, Anja - 2018

This paper surveys the existing literature on religious and cultural leaders. It discusses potential motivations of a leader and highlights that irrespective of his/her exact motivations, the presence of a leader is crucial for the cultural heterogeneity of a society. The impact of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797487