Those Who Stayed: Individualism, Self-Selection and Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration
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Those Who Stayed: Individualism, Self-Selection and Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration. / Knudsen, Anne Sofie Beck.
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T1 - Those Who Stayed: Individualism, Self-Selection and Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration
AU - Knudsen, Anne Sofie Beck
PY - 2019/1/31
Y1 - 2019/1/31
N2 - This paper examines the joint evolution of emigration and individualism in Scandinavia during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920). A long-standing hypothesis holds that people of a stronger individualistic mindset are more likely to migrate as they suffer lower costs of abandoning existing social networks. Building on this hypothesis, I propose a theory of cultural change where migrant self-selection generates a relative push away from individualism, and towards collectivism, in migrant-sending locations through a combination of initial distributional effects and channels of intergenerational cultural transmission. Due to the interdependent relationship between emigration and individualism, emigration is furthermore associated with cultural convergence across subnational locations. I combine various sources of empirical data, including historical population census records and passenger lists of emigrants, and test the relevant elements of the proposed theory at the individual and subnational.
AB - This paper examines the joint evolution of emigration and individualism in Scandinavia during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920). A long-standing hypothesis holds that people of a stronger individualistic mindset are more likely to migrate as they suffer lower costs of abandoning existing social networks. Building on this hypothesis, I propose a theory of cultural change where migrant self-selection generates a relative push away from individualism, and towards collectivism, in migrant-sending locations through a combination of initial distributional effects and channels of intergenerational cultural transmission. Due to the interdependent relationship between emigration and individualism, emigration is furthermore associated with cultural convergence across subnational locations. I combine various sources of empirical data, including historical population census records and passenger lists of emigrants, and test the relevant elements of the proposed theory at the individual and subnational.
KW - culture
KW - individualism
KW - migration
KW - selection
KW - economic history
KW - culture
KW - individualism
KW - migration
KW - selection
KW - economic history
KW - Z10
KW - F22
KW - O15
KW - R23
KW - N33
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.3321790
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.3321790
M3 - Working paper
T3 - University of Copenhagen. Institute of Economics. Discussion Papers (Online)
BT - Those Who Stayed: Individualism, Self-Selection and Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration
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