Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter?

Viola Angelini, Laura Casi () and Luca Corazzini

Journal of Population Economics, 2015, vol. 28, issue 3, 817-844

Abstract: To investigate empirically the association between a direct measure of assimilation with a host culture and immigrants’ subjective well-being, this study uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. A positive, significant association arises between cultural assimilation and immigrants’ life satisfaction, even after controlling for several potential confounding factors, such as immigrants’ individual (demographic and socio-economic) characteristics and regional controls that capture their external social conditions. Finally, the strength of the association varies with time since migration; it is significant for “established” and second-generation immigrants but vanishes for “recent” immigrants. Copyright The Author(s) 2015

Keywords: Cultural assimilation; Life-satisfaction; Immigration; J15; I31; Z10; F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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