Life Satisfaction of Immigrants: Does Cultural Assimilation Matter?

Viola Angelini, Laura Casi and Luca Corazzini

No 654, SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research from DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Abstract: We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using the German Socio-Economic Panel, a longitudinal dataset including information on both the economic and non-economic conditions of the respondents. We find that the more immigrants identify with the German culture and fluently speak the national language, the more they report to be satisfied with their lives. This result is robust to several potential confounding factors, including a large number of individual variables (demographic, educational, social, economic and health), labour market outcomes and the external social conditions of the immigrant.

Keywords: assimilation; identity; life-satisfaction; immigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I31 J15 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 p.
Date: 2014
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Journal Article: Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter? (2015)
Working Paper: Life satisfaction of immigrants: does cultural assimilation matter? (2013)
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