This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … economically. However, while refugees assigned to more hostile regions converge to local culture more quickly, they do not exhibit … faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort …

local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the … size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities, has on the assimilation process of the migrants. …

opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of …

local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the … size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities, has on the assimilation process of the migrants. …

opportunities of less educated natives is scant. On the question of assimilation, the success of the U.S.-born children of …

Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We … 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 …