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The impact of non-cognitive individual characteristics on migrant integration

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  • Catia Batista
  • Rita Mira Vaz

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Migrant integration is crucial for ageing European economies to reap the rewards of immigration. Using innovative individual-level integration measures based on survey data collected in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, we test the hypotheses that impatience, risk aversion and grit influence the integration of immigrants across three main dimensions: labour market, social inclusion, and active citizenship. We find that risk aversion positively impacts social integration, and active citizenship is positively impacted by higher impatience levels. Despite Portugal having some of the best immigrant integration policies, our evidence shows that informal barriers to migrant integration remain. Individual non-cognitive characteristics of migrants can help to overcome these barriers.

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  • Catia Batista & Rita Mira Vaz, 2023. "The impact of non-cognitive individual characteristics on migrant integration," NOVAFRICA Working Paper Series wp2304, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Nova School of Business and Economics, NOVAFRICA.
    • Handle: RePEc:unl:novafr:wp2304
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    Keywords

    Migration. Integration; Assimilation; Risk aversion; Impatience; Time preferences; Grit; Portugal;
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    JEL classification:

    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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