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 … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …

We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for … the host country’s culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can … and highly robust incentive to emigrate. Yet, whether those migration aspirations are turned into actual preparations is …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants … robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …