Migration and Cultural Change

The Political Assimilation of Immigrants: Migrant-to-Native Differences in Western Europe

“…Finally, while this paper and the vast extant literature document the influence of European political norms on the preferences of first-generation immigrants from outside Europe, one may ask symmetrically whether immigrants who bring with them the culture of their origin country are in a position to influence natives at destination. Rapoport et al (2020) and Tabellini and Giuliano (2020) -who found that immigration left its footprint on American ideology via cultural transmission at the time of the New Deal -go some way towards answering this question. This paper neither intends to, nor can provide an answer to this question in the European context.…”

Immigrant labor and the institutionalization of the U.S.‐born elderly

“…We also do not see clear evidence of differences across education groups. Indeed, recent work finds that cultural norm transmission operates more from the host country to the home country than vice-versa (Rapoport et al, 2020). Nevertheless, it should be noted that our subgroup analysis lacks statistical power and we do not have information on social networks that would allow us to investigate this mechanism more fully.…”

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

“…In the context of migration, economists have analyzed immigration-induced changes in preferences of natives (see Alesina & Tabellini, 2020, for a recent review), the influence of emigrants on the cultural dynamics of the origin community (Barsbai et al, 2017;Rapoport et al, 2020), and changes in or the persistence of immigrants' preferences (Abramitzky et al, 2020a;Fernandez & Fogli, 2009). 6 Most closely related to our paper, Abramitzky et al (2020a) show that both today and in the past, immigrants gradually assimilate culturally in the United States.…”

“…Most of these are derivatives of the Minkowski norm, which is defined as D mink (X, Y ) = p p P n i=1 |x i y i | p , where X and Y are two independent probability density functions. The most frequently used measure of cultural distance, at least within economics, is the Euclidean distance, which belongs to the group of geometric distances (Alesina et al, 2017;Bertrand & Kamenica, 2018;Rapoport et al, 2020). Intuitively, it captures the shortest, unweighted distance between two points in the cultural space.…”