TY - JOUR
T1 - Integration policy
T2 - Cultural transmission with endogenous fertility
AU - Bar-Gill, Sagit
AU - Fershtman, Chaim
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2014.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - We live in heterogeneous societies with many cultural and ethnic minorities. The cultural composition of our societies changes over time as a result of immigration, fertility choices, and cultural assimilation. Studying such population dynamics, we examine the effect of integration policies, which increase the cost of direct cultural transmission, on the size of the cultural minority. We show that integration policies, while often aimed at reducing the minority’s size, may have the opposite effect of increasing minority fertility and its growth rate.
AB - We live in heterogeneous societies with many cultural and ethnic minorities. The cultural composition of our societies changes over time as a result of immigration, fertility choices, and cultural assimilation. Studying such population dynamics, we examine the effect of integration policies, which increase the cost of direct cultural transmission, on the size of the cultural minority. We show that integration policies, while often aimed at reducing the minority’s size, may have the opposite effect of increasing minority fertility and its growth rate.
KW - Cultural transmission
KW - Fertility
KW - Integration policies
KW - Minorities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85028249116&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s00148-014-0521-0
DO - 10.1007/s00148-014-0521-0
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AN - SCOPUS:85028249116
SN - 0933-1433
VL - 29
SP - 105
EP - 133
JO - Journal of Population Economics
JF - Journal of Population Economics
IS - 1
ER -
