Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297243 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1447
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
We highlight a new factor behind integration: tolerance in the immigrants' background culture. We hypothesize that it is easier to partake of economic, civic-political, and social life in a new country for a person stemming from a culture that embodies tolerance towards people who are different. We test this by applying the epidemiological method, using a tolerance index based on two indicators from the World Values Survey - the share that thinks it important to teach children tolerance and the share that considers homosexuality justified - as our main independent variable. Our outcomes are indices of individual-level economic, civic-political, and cultural integration outcomes for immigrants of the second generation with data from the European Social Survey. The results indicate that tolerance in the background culture is a robust predictor of integration among children of immigrants in European societies.
Subjects: 
Tolerance
Culture
Immigration
Integration
Values
JEL: 
F22
F66
J15
Z13
Z18
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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