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 …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … information on job search strategies that immigrants derive from the interaction with their classmates and teachers during classes …

immigrants’ stock. On the other hand, there is an increase in regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … the government has in mind a specific upper bound on immigrants, and the policies adopted (admission requirements or …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … hypothesis that more positive attitudes increase the skill composition of immigrants. The results imply that general attitudes …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …. Namely, immigrants arrive with better health compared to natives and their health deteriorates with longer residence in the …

many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth … patterns. We also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants' age at arrival to the United States …