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 …

meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …

In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …

The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions …