I could just drop the mic there & be done for the day—you can click on the Alesina/Giuliano paper & skim the key papers they mention—but let’s dive a little deeper.
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Whatever weight you put on that “optimistic” scenario, I doubt it will be close to 100% true, for the foreseeable future, in all rich countries. And the above research suggests lots of non-poor folks are importing attitudes to the 2nd generation.
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There’s much more to be said about immigrant assimilation, but the evidence is universal: Total, eventual assimilation on economically & politically important attitudes is a myth, & scholars should publicly, candidly treat it as such. I’ll close with those contrasting quotes:pic.twitter.com/QdNNoVTxaD
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Algan & Cahuc (2010) holds for 1 wave of WVS that was possibly mismeasured. In other waves of WVS, A&C’s results disappear. That should significantly lower confidence in A&C (2010) - and that ignores all of the other problems with WVS, trust, etc. https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2019-10/working-paper-57.pdf …pic.twitter.com/g5DrtuPVPC
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And it's sure become quite the struggle today given communication technology that allows low-skills to live in a foreign bubble wherever they walk, drive, or sit, and the progressive push for multi-culturalism, where any emphasis on assimilation is decried as racist & nativist.
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Assimilation happens. You don't need 100% for that. And, any way, life goes on, things change, and what does it really matter?
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