Cultural Assimilation: Learning and Sorting

Learning and Occupational Sorting

This paper develops and estimates a model of occupational choice and learning that allows for correlated learning across occupation specific abilities. In the labor market, workers learn about their potential outcomes in all occupations, not just their current occupation. Based on what they learn, workers engage in directed search across occupations. The estimates indicate that sorting occurs i...

Multi-method learning and assimilation

Considering the wide range of possible behaviors to be acquired for domestic robots, applying a single learning method is clearly insufficient. In this paper, we propose a new strategy for behavior acquisition for domestic robots where the behaviors are acquired using multiple differing learning methods that are subsequently incorporated into a common behavior selection system, enabling them to...

ASSIMILATION AND CONTRAST EFFECTS IN CULTURAL FRAME SWITCHING Bicultural Identity Integration and Valence of Cultural Cues

This study examines how the valence of cultural cues in the environment moderates the way biculturals shift between multiple cultural identities. The authors found that when exposed to positive cultural cues, biculturals who perceive their cultural identities as compatible (high bicultural identity integration, or high BII) respond in culturally congruent ways, whereas biculturals who perceive ...

The Role of Cultural Assimilation and Internal Changes in Cultures

Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion, benefited from enhanced assimilation, lower cultural diversity and, thus, more intense accumulation of ...