Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Angelini, Viola; Casi, Laura; Corazzini, Luca

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“…Given that these variables are likely to be highly correlated one with another, we use the Principal Component Analysis in order to build a synthetic indicator for economic well‐being. Second, we consider health status, proxied by the number of individual visits to a doctor in a year (Angelini et al., ). Subjective well‐being is captured by an index of life satisfaction (Wright, ); following Angelini et al.…”

Section: The German Socio‐economic Panel Data and The Empirical Methodsmentioning

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Returning to the country of origin in later life: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel

Çela

Bettin

2018

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Although migration literature has largely explored the determinants of the intention to return to the country of origin, older migrants have only more recently become the focus of scientific interest. Building on the literature related to return migration, well-being and ageing, we investigate quantitatively the determinants of return intentions in later life. We draw on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) for the period 1984-2013 to address the role of subjective and objective well-being in shaping later-life (im)mobility intentions.Our findings highlight the key role of different dimensions of well-being (economic and psychological factors) whose effects on return intentions are greatly shaped by gender; men are more influenced by economic conditions than women, for whom more intimate and subjective considerations seem to play a major role. Satisfaction with life in Germany plays a major role in permanent settlement for both female and male migrants. Other factors related to integration and to the (transnational) family structure significantly affect the desire to return to the country of origin.

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Section: The German Socio‐economic Panel Data and The Empirical Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Returning to the country of origin in later life: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel

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Bettin

2018

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“…7 It is easily checked that there is a unique maximum for each   . 8 The superscript  refers to the "social optimum" outcome while a star refers to the "Nash equilibrium" outcome.…”

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The role of social networks in cultural assimilation

Verdier

Zénou

2017

Journal of Urban Economics

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“…This 'straight-line' assimilation model suggests that the increase in the level of exposure to the host society is the key to eliminating socioeconomic and cultural gaps resulting from one's immigration status, so that immigrant descendants, who are more exposed to the host country, enjoy a higher level of overall well-being than their predecessors, who are less exposed to the host country (Price, 1969;Warner and Srole, 1945). Supporting assumptions of the straight-line, upward assimilation model, a number of studies have detected an increasing trend in life satisfaction over immigrant generations (Angelini et al, 2015;Harker, 2001;Sowell, 1981).…”

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“…Based on extensive scholarship about socioeconomic situations of the immigrant population in the host country (Khoudja and Platt, 2018; see also a review by Heath et al, 2008), scholars have come to agree that objective socioeconomic indicators alone cannot fully explain integration outcomes of this population group (Angelini et al, 2015;Givens, 2007;Hendriks, 2015). In fact, the recent development in the integration literature has witnessed an increasing interest in immigrants' own assessments of their lives in host societies, namely, utility of immigration indicated by life satisfaction (Baykara- Krumme and Platt, 2018;Kogan et al, 2018; see also a review by Hendricks, 2015).…”

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Immigrants’ relative income and life satisfaction: Comparison groups from a multi-generational perspective

Shen¹,

Kogan

2019

Acta Sociologica

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With a focus on the immigrant population, this study examines how the association between a relative income position and life satisfaction varies when the comparison group changes. Drawing data from Understanding Society in the UK between 2009 and 2015, this study first shows that after migration, income comparisons with the mainstream and co-ethnic groups in the host country matter more than that with the source-country population for one’s life satisfaction. Furthermore, the relevance of comparison groups to life satisfaction varies across immigrant generations. Income comparison with the source-country population is more relevant to life satisfaction of the 1st generation, whereas 1.5 and 2nd generations consider income comparisons within the host country more relevant. In particular, favourable income comparison with the mainstream group in the host country is the most relevant to life satisfaction of the 2nd-generation, followed by the 1.5-generation, and last by the 1st-generation immigrants.

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Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Cited by 15 publications

References 47 publications

Returning to the country of origin in later life: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel

Returning to the country of origin in later life: Longitudinal evidence from the German Socio‐Economic Panel

The role of social networks in cultural assimilation

Immigrants’ relative income and life satisfaction: Comparison groups from a multi-generational perspective

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