How Persistent Is Life Satisfaction? Evidence from European Immigration

Niclas Berggren, Andreas Bergh, Christian Bjørnskov and Shiori Tanaka
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Shiori Tanaka: Department of Transdisciplinary Science and Engineering, Postal: Tokyo Institute of Technology

No 1206, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: This paper asks to what extent life satisfaction among immigrants remains similar to that in their country of origin and to what extent it adapts to that in their country of residence. We employ data from 29,000 immigrants in the European Social Survey to estimate the relative importance of these influences. We find evidence that the persistence of life satisfaction from the country of origin is strong for migrants from developed countries and close to zero for migrants from formerly communist countries. We also find that persistence for second-generation immigrants is similar but weaker than for their parents.

Keywords: Life satisfaction; Happiness; Life satisfaction; Heritability; Culture; Immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I31 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 31 pages
Date: 2018-04-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hap, nep-mig and nep-soc
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