Kogan Irena, Shen Jing
School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Front Sociol. 2019 May 15;4:42. doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2019.00042. eCollection 2019.
By drawing data from the European Social Survey (ESS) (2008-2016), this study explores how immigrants' assessments of economy, democracy, and quality of public goods (such as health and education systems) in the receiving societies contribute to their life satisfaction. Results indicate that satisfaction with the economy is the strongest correlate of individual life satisfaction among European immigrants, and this association is particularly pronounced among immigrants from Turkey, Eastern and Southern Europe. Assuming that immigrants compare institutions of their host and home countries when assessing institutional features of the host countries, relative gains in satisfaction with the performance of host-country economy are shown to be associated with particularly higher levels of overall life satisfaction among immigrants from Turkey, Eastern and Southern European countries than the rest of Europe. We conclude that, in relative terms, migrants from countries with less well-functioning economies to countries with more favorable economic conditions display higher levels of perceived satisfaction with the host country economies, which contributes considerably to their overall life satisfaction.
通过提取欧洲社会调查（ESS）（2008 - 2016年）的数据，本研究探讨了移民对接收社会中的经济、民主以及公共产品质量（如卫生和教育系统）的评估如何影响他们的生活满意度。结果表明，对经济的满意度是欧洲移民个人生活满意度最强的关联因素，这种关联在来自土耳其、东欧和南欧的移民中尤为明显。假设移民在评估东道国的制度特征时会比较东道国和母国的制度，研究发现，与欧洲其他地区相比，来自土耳其、东欧和南欧国家的移民对东道国经济表现的满意度相对提高，与他们更高的总体生活满意度相关。我们得出结论，相对而言，从经济运行较差的国家迁移到经济条件更有利国家的移民对东道国经济的满意度更高，这对他们的总体生活满意度有很大贡献。
