the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …. We further examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to …

, for distribution, ethnic conflict and crime. We develop a two-community model where such assimilation generates social …

remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic … identity is a major issue; even more challenging is to measure its impact on economic outcomes such as the probability to work … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …

ethnic goods have vastly different effects on immigrant assimilation. We develop a simple theoretical model useful for … capturing the consequences of this struggle, illustrating it with examples of Central Asian assimilation into the Muscovite …

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified … counterfactual in which the same number of migrants are neutrally selected. In both periods, we find virtually no aggregate effect in …

economic assimilation of immigrants in Germany. We propose a weighting scheme that weights components of social inclusion by …

Sweden did not apply any transitional rules for migrants coming from the ten new European Union member states in May …). The composition of the migrants changed. While earlier many more women than men arrived, now the gender composition is …