Immigrants from more tolerant cultures integrate deeper into destination countries
(2023) In Journal of Comparative Economics 51(4). p.1095-1108- Abstract
We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants’ background culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture that embodies tolerance towards people who are different. We test this by applying the epidemiological method, using a tolerance index based on two indicators from the World Values Survey – the share that thinks it important to teach children tolerance and the share that considers homosexuality justified – as our main independent variable. Our outcomes are indices of individual-level economic, civic-political and cultural integration outcomes for immigrants of the second generation with data from the... (More)
We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants’ background culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture that embodies tolerance towards people who are different. We test this by applying the epidemiological method, using a tolerance index based on two indicators from the World Values Survey – the share that thinks it important to teach children tolerance and the share that considers homosexuality justified – as our main independent variable. Our outcomes are indices of individual-level economic, civic-political and cultural integration outcomes for immigrants of the second generation with data from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of integration among children of immigrants in European societies.
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- Berggren, Niclas ; Ljunge, Martin and Nilsson, Therese LU
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- 2023
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- Culture, Immigration, Integration, Tolerance, Values
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- Journal of Comparative Economics
- volume
- 51
- issue
- 4
- pages
- 1095 - 1108
- publisher
- Elsevier
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- scopus:85163291149
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- 0147-5967
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- 10.1016/j.jce.2023.06.005
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- English
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