Comparing Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives Across Europe:The Role of Social Contacts
Research on immigrants’ assimilation is widespread both in the U.S. and Europe. While it has been extensively studied how immigrants fare compared to natives on socio-economic indicators, few studies have focussed on immigrants’ perception of their position. In this paper we focus on comparing life satisfaction of immigrants and natives across Europe and on the role of social embeddedness. Using data from the first six rounds (2002–2012) of the European Social Survey, a repeated cross-sectional survey, we find that life satisfaction among immigrants is lower than among natives even though diff... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Arpino , B & de Valk , H A G 2018 , ' Comparing Life Satisfaction of Immigrants and Natives Across Europe : The Role of Social Contacts ' , Social Indicators Research , vol. 137 , no. 3 , pp. 1163-1184 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-017-1629-x |
Schlagwörter: | SSCI / Life satisfaction / Social embeddedness / Immigrants / Second generation / Europe / European Social Survey / MIGRATION / NETWORKS / MIGRANTS / 2ND-GENERATION / DISCRIMINATION / UNEMPLOYMENT / EMBEDDEDNESS / NETHERLANDS / RESOURCES / HAPPINESS |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27211394 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/d5d1ee2f-239f-4215-a019-5e461ffd55ce |