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Life satisfaction of immigrants : does cultural assimilation matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca - 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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Cultural integration of first-generation immigrants : evidence from European Union countries

Giovanis, Eleftherios; Akdede, Sacit Hadi - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 15 (2023) 2, pp. 97-125

In this study, we aim to explore and compare the frequency of attendance and the reasons for non-attendance to cultural activities between natives and first-generation immigrants in thirteen European countries. The empirical analysis relies on data from the special module on cultural...

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Cultural and economic integration of immigrants in Canada : "do you play hockey?"

Japaridze, Irakli; Kaplan, Uma - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-14

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 … immigrants and natives. However, the gap does not decrease for visible-minority immigrants, suggesting that acculturation might …

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053704

A reluctance to assimilate

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2006

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018 - Draft version: 31.10.2018

Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...

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Justice delayed is assimilation denied : rightwing terror, fear and social assimilation of Turkish immigrants in Germany

Deole, Sumit S. - 2018

In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011901768

Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

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

What happens when immigrant girls are given increased opportunities to integrate into the workplace and society, but their parents value more traditional cultural outcomes? Building on Akerlof and Kranton's identity framework (2000), we construct a simple theoretical model which shows how...

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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014

from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …

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CULTURAL VALUES AND DECISION TO WORK OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN ITALY

Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Statistiche e … - 2014

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