focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a …

immigrants’ ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …

pervasive informal sector and a wide wage dispersion reflecting a large education premium for those with higher education …

Education is a main determinant of employment, but not in isolation. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT …

questioned, they can be classified into four states - assimilation, integration, separation and marginalization. This is …

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. …

Woodruff (2003) the results obtained from Census data indicate a positive and small effect of remittances on schooling only for … children living in cities with fewer than 2,500 inhabitants and with mothers with a very low level of education. However its …

of, active migration and integration strategies. …