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 invested 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
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Authors: | Epstein, Gil ; Gang, Ira |
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London : Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London |
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Series: | CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; 15/10 |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | RePEc:crm:wpaper:1015 [RePEc] |
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533106
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