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The well-being costs of immigration in Europe

O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2025

-being, which captures all of the important factors affected by immigration. …

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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas : an identity economics approach

Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 1/1, pp. 1-20

cultures. In a simple immigration game it is shown that immigrants may prefer to live rather in diaspora communities than to …

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900 - 1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2015

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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Please call me John : name choice and the assimilation of immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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Faith and assimilation: Italian immigrants in the US

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

Ethnic religious organizations are often blamed for slowing down immigrants' assimilation in host societies. This paper offers the first systematic evidence on this topic by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians had moved to America,...

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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence

Constant, Amelie - 2017

the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …

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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

, highlighting potential differences between countries and between the European Union (EU) and non-EU migrants. The results highlight …-term process or "experienced" activity. The findings also show that in most cases, migrants do not attend the cultural activities … integration of migrants could be the primary driver of cultural participation and integration. …

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Immigration shocks and shifting social group boundaries

Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

We study whether the arrival of a new immigrant wave changes natives' acceptance of former immigrants and their descendants. We exploit the 2015 European refugee crisis and the context of German open-list local council elections where voting for immigrant-origin candidates represents a...

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