experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language …

language knowledge of low-educated migrants causes these results, as immigrants for whom themother tongue is similar to the …We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born workers with a tertiary diploma, using a foreign language at …

language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … missionary activity of both Protestants and Catholics on an immigrant’s English language proficiency using a linear probability … squares model. Among other relevant variables, the analysis controls for the colonial heritage of the immigrant’s country of …

Germany. The existing evidence shows that the economic outcomes of migrants are far behind natives. However, immigrants are a … refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …

As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the …

associations between the number of mobile applications in use aiming to facilitate immigrants’ societal integration (m … and voice assistants, public services, and medical services provide the highest returns on immigrants’ level of … intelligence (AI) are associated with increased health/mental health and integration levels among immigrants. We indicate that AI …

migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources … on the refugees’ outcomes at six months and one year after arrival. …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …. Namely, immigrants arrive with better health compared to natives and their health deteriorates with longer residence in the …

to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the … culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle- Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA …). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of immigrants' culture in estimating immigration's socio …