A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete against one another by helping their country-folk and to win grants from the foundation. We develop a model that considers how such a competition affects the resources in-vested by the groups’ supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We consider two alternative rewards systems for supporters – absolute and relative ranking – in achieving their goals.
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2010-07-31
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Authors: | Epstein, Gil S. ; Gang, Ira N. |
Institutions: | Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi (DEMM), Università degli Studi di Milano |
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