TY - CHAP AB - For some time we have been concerned with the use of the concept of culture in the economics migration literature and in our own work. Migrants, the places they leave and the places they go, are complex elements that are linked in multiple and multidimensional ways. Yet in our search for simple models, we often summarize this information in single categorical variables such as country of origin, just as in the discrimination literature we often summarize the differences in gender or ethnic/racial achievements solely by a shift in the intercept. Occam's razor is sometimes too sharp. VL - 8 SN - 978-0-85724-153-5, 978-0-85724-154-2/1574-8715 DO - 10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000008006 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1574-8715(2010)0000008006 ED - Gil S. Epstein ED - Ira N. Gang PY - 2010 Y1 - 2010/01/01 TI - Preface T2 - Migration and Culture T3 - Frontiers of Economics and Globalization PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - xxvii EP - xxviii Y2 - 2024/03/29 ER -