This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States …. The results reveal that when viewed through the evaluation lenses of the general US population, immigrants engage in less … assessments, immigrants are more optimistic and perceive these activities as associated with higher levels of happiness and …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …

Children of Asian immigrants in most English-speaking destinations have better academic outcomes, yet the underlying … decade to present new evidence that children of Asian immigrants begin spending more time than their peers on educational … children of Asian immigrants is attributable mainly to their allocating more time to educational activities or their favorable …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals' human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

educational integration of first- and second-generation immigrants would affect the future size of the Austrian labour force. Due … between the second generation of migrants with EU or EFTA backgrounds and people without a migration background, would have … only a minor impact on future labour force participation dynamics. In contrast, closing education and labour force …

second-generation immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a legal change in 2000 that granted children of foreigners …, highlighting the roles of higher expected returns to education and of an increased sense of belonging to Germany. …

international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

approximately six years apart) of the New Immigrants Survey (NIS). As part of the NIS interviews, U.S. born and foreign …-born children of immigrants were asked to take Woodcock-Johnson achievement test. In both rounds, prior to the administration of … suggest that in reading tests, U.S. born children of Hispanic immigrants perform better, when they are assigned to take the …