Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups … of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of … immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and …

In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence … of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal … foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and …

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 …

This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and …

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 …

how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …

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. …