most preferred host countries for immigration. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find … that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the 2015 … European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced …

the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide … 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 …

Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the … strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs with higher average wages and …

result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …

the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …