Arbeitspapier

Migration and Cultural Change

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value Survey for the period 1981-2014 to build time-varying measures of cultural similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our evidence is inconsistent with the view that immigrants are a threat to the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8547

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Thema
migration
cultural change
globalization

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rapoport, Hillel
Sardoschau, Sulin
Silve, Arthur
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rapoport, Hillel
  • Sardoschau, Sulin
  • Silve, Arthur
  • Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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