Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition

The paper examines the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant-family background and individuals with no migrant-family background. The subjective well-being of the former group is on average lower than the latter group. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition finds that the gap in their subjective w...

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Main Author: Beja, Edsel L, Jr
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Published: Archīum Ateneo 2018
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spelling ph-ateneo-arc.economics-faculty-pubs-10142020-03-24T07:56:09Z Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition Beja, Edsel L, Jr The paper examines the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant-family background and individuals with no migrant-family background. The subjective well-being of the former group is on average lower than the latter group. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition finds that the gap in their subjective well-being is not explained by differences in socioeconomic profile and social context.Rather the gap is mainly due to the unexplained component of the analysis, which the paper interprets in two ways.First, the unexplained component represents the latent social biases against individuals with migrant heritage.Second,the unexplained component also represents the overall effect of personality, attitude, and migrant culture on the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant heritage. 2018-01-01T08:00:00Z text https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/15 https://ideas.repec.org/a/mig/journl/v15y2018i3p398-408.html Economics Department Faculty Publications Archīum Ateneo Economics
institution Ateneo De Manila University
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Philippines
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topic Economics
spellingShingle Economics
Beja, Edsel L, Jr
Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
description The paper examines the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant-family background and individuals with no migrant-family background. The subjective well-being of the former group is on average lower than the latter group. Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition finds that the gap in their subjective well-being is not explained by differences in socioeconomic profile and social context.Rather the gap is mainly due to the unexplained component of the analysis, which the paper interprets in two ways.First, the unexplained component represents the latent social biases against individuals with migrant heritage.Second,the unexplained component also represents the overall effect of personality, attitude, and migrant culture on the subjective well-being of individuals with migrant heritage.
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author Beja, Edsel L, Jr
author_facet Beja, Edsel L, Jr
author_sort Beja, Edsel L, Jr
title Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
title_short Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
title_full Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
title_fullStr Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
title_full_unstemmed Migrant-family background and subjective well-being: Evidence using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition
title_sort migrant-family background and subjective well-being: evidence using blinder-oaxaca decomposition
publisher Archīum Ateneo
publishDate 2018
url https://archium.ateneo.edu/economics-faculty-pubs/15
https://ideas.repec.org/a/mig/journl/v15y2018i3p398-408.html
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