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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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New evidence on son preference among immigrant households in the United States
Duan, Huiqiong; Hicks, Daniel L. - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/14, pp. 1-28
This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant … between immigrant parents is associated with stronger gender preferences. Third, comparing male and female migrants who marry …, child gender preferences are strongest for migrants who arrive after childhood but do not appear to diminish with the …
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Ethnic persistence, assimilation and risk proclivity
Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramons, Konstantinos - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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Ethnic identity : a theoretical framework
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-11
literature which studies the effect of the immigrants' characteristics, such as age, gender, education, religion, age at arrival …
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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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Barriers of culture, networks, and language in international migration : a review
Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 5 (2018) 1, pp. 73-89
Along with the increasing pace of globalization, recent decades faced a dramatically increase in international migrant flows as well. Compared to the flows of trade, capital and knowledge, we observe that contemporaneous complex institutional differences, historical backgrounds, and individuals'...
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Ethnic identity and scholastic effort : a multifaceted approach
Autiero, Giuseppina - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 2, pp. 1-13
When one analyses the influence of social identity on scholastic effort, ethnic identity largely contributes to determine it. In this paper, ethnic identity is meant as the attachment to one’s cultural heritage and the adaptation to host societies; this allows considering how conflicting...
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Cultural assimilation : learning and sorting
Monteiro, Stein - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 12 (2020) 2, pp. 1-31
There are larger productivity gains to migrating from a relatively poor country than a richer one. Due to these productivity differences, immigration from a poor source country is larger. Among poor source country immigrants, their exposure to co-ethnics is larger than those from richer source...
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Distributional differences and the Native American gender wage gap
Burnette, Jeffrey; Zhang, Weiwei - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 2/46, pp. 1-18
gender wage inequality for American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) women across single, multiracial and ethnic identity … groups. Mean differences in hourly wages by gender contribute little to measured wage inequality when individuals are …
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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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