Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

This paper investigates the influence of national attachments among Black and White Americans. Research on national attachments (e.g., patriotism, nationalism) has gained wide currency among political behavior scholars, as it couples strong theoretical mechanisms with well-behaved measures to...

Now that immigration reform is at the top of the Obama agenda and likely to be a key topic of debate in the next presidential election, we must evaluate how mass opinion on the issue will respond to proposed solutions and other related concerns. More importantly, we must recognize that the...