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IZA Discussion Paper No. 8752

Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation: The Role of Gender and Ethnicity

Stijn Baert, Frank Heiland, Sanders Korenman

revised version published in: De Economist, 2016, 164, 159 - 186

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8640

The Effect of Perceived Regional Accents on Individual Economic Behavior: A Lab Experiment on Linguistic Performance, Cognitive Ratings and Economic Decisions

Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Gerhard Riener

published in: PLOS ONE, 2015, 10 (2), e0124732.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8625

Ethnosizing Immigrants: A Theoretical Framework

Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)

published as 'Ethnic identity: a theoretical framework' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2016, 4:9

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8571

Ethnic Identity and Work

Amelie F. Constant

published in: J.D. Wright (ed) the International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2nd Edition, 2015, 106-112

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8522

Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy

Vincenzo Scoppa, Manuela Stranges

published in: Labour: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2019, 33 (1), 101-123.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8460

Immigrants' 'Ability' and Welfare as a Function of Cultural Diversity: Effect of Cultural Capital at Individual and Local Level

Annie Tubadji, Masood Gheasi, Peter Nijkamp

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8384

Diversity and Social Capital in the U.S: A Tale of Conflict, Contact or Total Mistrust?

Willie Belton, Yameen Huq, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere

published in: Review of Economics and Institutions, 2018, 9 (2), Article 1

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8132

Culture, Religiosity and Female Labor Supply

Duygu Guner, Gokce Uysal

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8126

Economic Well-being and Anti-Semitic, Xenophobic, and Racist Attitudes in Germany

Naci Mocan, Christian Raschke

published in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 2016, 41 (1), 1-63

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7868

Ethnic Spatial Dispersion and Immigrant Identity

Amelie F. Constant, Simone Schüller, Klaus F. Zimmermann

revised version published in: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2024, 22 (2), 205 - 230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7684

Confucianism and Preferences: Evidence from Lab Experiments in Taiwan and China

Elaine M. Liu, Juanjuan Meng, Joseph Tao-yi Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7397

Same Same But Different: Dialects and Trade

Alfred Lameli, Volker Nitsch, Jens Suedekum, Nikolaus Wolf

published in: German Economic Review, 2015, 16 (3), 290-306

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7385

Does Bilateral Trust Affect International Movement of Goods and Labor?

Eva Spring, Volker Grossmann

published as "Does Bilateral Trust Across Countries Really Affect International Trade and Factor Mobility?" in: Empirical Economics, 2016, 50 (1), 103-136

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7203

Trust of Second Generation Immigrants: Intergenerational Transmission or Cultural Assimilation?

Julie Moschion, Domenico Tabasso

published in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3 (10)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7176

Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, 2013, 103 (3), 528-533

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7020

Immigrants, Ethnic Identities and the Nation-State

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann (eds), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 14, 259-275

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6330

The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Quamrul Ashraf, Oded Galor

published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (1), 1-46

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6314

The Effect of Ethnic Identity on the Employment of Immigrants

Nick Drydakis

published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2013, 11 (2), 285-308

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6175

The French Unhappiness Puzzle: The Cultural Dimension of Happiness

Claudia Senik

published as 'Why are the French so Unhappy? The Cultural Dimension of Happiness' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014, 106, 379-401.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6078

Ethnic Identity and Immigrants' Wages in Greece

Nick Drydakis

published in: International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 2012, 36 (3), 389 - 402

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6011

Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Pieter Bevelander, Anders Hellström

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5584

The Empire Is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Sascha O. Becker, Katrin Boeckh, Christa Hainz, Ludger Woessmann

published in: Economic Journal, 2016, 126 (590), 40-74

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4747

Family Values and the Regulation of Labor

Alberto Alesina, Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2015, 13 (4), 599-630

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4743

Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich, Alfred Lameli, Jens Suedekum

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 225-239

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4620

Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Integration

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: M. N. Jovanovic (ed.), International Handbook on the Economics of Integration, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, 2011, 145 - 168. Revised version published in: A. F. Constant, K. F. Zimmermann, International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, pp. 13-36.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4283

Does Culture Affect Unemployment? Evidence from the Röstigraben

Beatrix Brügger, Rafael Lalive, Josef Zweimüller

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4275

Work and Money: Payoffs by Ethnic Identity and Gender

Amelie F. Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 3-30

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4150

Family Ties and Political Participation

Alberto Alesina, Paola Giuliano

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (5), 817-839

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3445