The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens? taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …

This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and … on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

social traits of parents has an effect on the segregation of minorities and migrants. …

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various … services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal … immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in certain professions and may themselves employ other illegal immigrants …

immigrants and the new society in their host country. Spread of migrants from the same origin in the diaspora may well increase …In this paper, we examine possible types of network formation among immigrants in the diaspora and between those … immigrants and the locals in different countries. We present the model by considering different possible interactions between …

dropout rate and age of arrival of the immigrants. Using repeated cross sectional data from the Israeli Labor Force Surveys of …, quality of education and wages. …