We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …

evidence of the effect of culture on self-employment. Our results show that culture has quantitatively significant effects on …. Additional analysis shows that there are differences in the impact of culture on self-employment by gender, in that men are more … sensitive than women to culture; and by economic activity, in that those individuals involved in professional, scientific, and …

soccer, American football and tennis and also use our framework to compare the performance of empirically applied ranking …

This chapter begins by noting that culture as an element in economic development in the Third World has been largely … neglected in traditional development economics, most writers either seeing culture as an obstacle to development or ignoring it … altogether. Recently a shift in thinking has occurred whereby culture is now more widely seen as being more central to the …

across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …