shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage … equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …, while other countries rely more on permanent migrants and see much more assimilation. …

insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …

We analyze differences in tax filing behavior between natives and immigrants using population-wide Swedish … behavior of immigrants and natives with the same commuting patterns within Sweden’s largest commuting zone. We find that newly … arrived immigrants file fewer deductions than natives, that immigrants with a longer duration of stay in the host country …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants' inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …