Optimal Immigration and Cultural Assimilation
This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article’s key contribution is the joint analysis of the assimilation and migration decisions, which highlights the inefficiency of some commonly advocated policy tools to achieve the first best. U.S. data provide preliminary support for the model’s implications.
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2007
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Authors: | Kónya, István |
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Journal of Labor Economics. - University of Chicago Press. - Vol. 25.2007, p. 367-391
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University of Chicago Press |
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