Language proficiency is a key driver of immigrant integration. It increases job opportunities and facilitates social …

settlement and integration programmes to improve labour market and other outcomes that affect well-being. This chapter looks at …

differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …

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. …

Although South-South migrants face much of the same discrimination and integration challenges as their South … neglect integration issues, generating costs not only for immigrants and their families, but also for host communities …. Against this background, the standard models of integration used in the North – assimilation and multiculturalism – are not …

capital is important for understanding the economic integration of immigrants. …