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Therese Nilsson. Photo.

Therese Nilsson

Professor

Therese Nilsson. Photo.

Immigrants from more tolerant cultures integrate deeper into destination countries

Author

  • Niclas Berggren
  • Martin Ljunge
  • Therese Nilsson

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Centre for Economic Demography
  • Department of Economics

Publishing year

2023

Language

English

Pages

1095-1108

Publication/Series

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volume

51

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Culture
  • Immigration
  • Integration
  • Tolerance
  • Values

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0147-5967