While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With … assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not …

Much of the literature on immigrants' cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large tradition of … receiving immigrants and with well established Welfare states. This paper contributes to this literature by analyzing … differences in cash-welfare benefits receipt between immigrants and natives and their determinants in Spain, a country with: (1) a …

While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With … immigrants are more occupationally mobile than natives, and that much of this greater flexibility is explained by immigrants …

evolves with time in Spain, the type of sectors they work in, and their welfare use, including unemployment insurance receipt …

180 days of unemployment for all spells beginning on July 15, 2012. Using Social Security data and a Differences … unemployment duration by 5.7 weeks (or 14%), implying an elasticity of 0.86. We find strong behavioral effects as the reform … reduced the expected unemployment duration right from the beginning of the unemployment spell. While the reform had no effect …

ancestry. The transmission of culture is higher among those in schools with a higher proportion of immigrants or in co …