tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or …

We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence … in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic origins. We also find that, on average, immigrants …

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes … across immigrants of different origins. Our analysis of the adaptation behavior of immigrants suggests that acquisition of …

Do migration policies affect whether immigrants contribute more to public finances than they receive as transfer …

The current situation regarding the integration of immigrants in the labour market in Sweden is the consequence of a …

inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … determinants of success in the US labor market, an obvious concern is that such immigrants are a poor fit for the restructured … topics: the labor market integration of immigrants, the socio-economic attainment of the US-born descendants of immigrants …

immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants … linguistic distance has a strong negative influence on bilateral trade volumes. -- Linguistic distance ; immigrants ; language …

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … substitution of consumption is well above typical estimated values for this parameter. In fact, empirical results from immigrants …—holding individual immigrant characteristics constant— immigrants from poorer source countries have shorter predicted migration duration …