Migrants and Life Satisfaction: The Role of the Country of Origin and the Country of Residence
利用欧洲社会调查数据，研究了第一代和第二代移民的生活满意度如何受原籍国和居住国平均生活满意度的影响，发现第一代移民受原籍国影响因国家类型而异，第二代则完全不受原籍国影响。
SUMMARY We investigate how the life satisfaction of migrants is affected by life satisfaction in their background country and in their new country of residence. In particular, we contribute to the literature by differentiating between first‐ and second‐generation immigrants and by differentiating between types of background country. Using data from the European Social Survey on 30,000 immigrants from 200 countries in 32 European countries, we find that for first‐generation immigrants, the effect of the average life satisfaction of the background country is strong for migrants from developed countries, smaller for migrants from developing countries and zero for migrants from post‐communist countries. Moreover, the effect from the country of residence is strong for all groups, indicating that while most of these immigrants retain ties to or are still under the influence of the culture of the old country, they develop important ties to the new country. However, second‐generation immigrants are not influenced by the life‐satisfaction of the background country at all, indicating that they are strongly attuned to life in the country in which they were born.