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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 given that these sports are popular in Canada but are...

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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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Are immigrant and minority homeownership rates gaining ground in the US?

Chakrabarty, Durba; Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V.; … - 2017

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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The evolution of immigrants' homeownership in Germany

Ihley, Dorothee; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2016

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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Border apprehensions and federal sentencing of Hispanic citizens in the United States

Bertoli, Simone; Laouénan, Morgane; Valette, Jérôme - 2023

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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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

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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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...

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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination : approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

. -- immigration ; migration ; labour market ; culture ; political preferences ; wage discrimination ; Switzerland …

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