Migration, friendship ties, and cultural assimilation

We study migrants’ assimilation by analyzing whether friendship with natives is a measure of cultural assimilation and by investigating the formation of social ties. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without along...

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Main Authors: Facchini, Giovanni, Patacchini, Eleanora, Steinhardt, Max F.
Format: Article
Published: Wiley 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30496/