Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The …

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … behaviours and attitudes of migrants are diverging from or converging with those of natives. Chapter 2 examines the causes of … differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic …

investigate the determinants of literacy and show that migrants have systematically lower language skills than natives. We find … that many other skills become usable. More so than for natives, this argument applies to migrants: even those with high … host country language. Using novel data from a large-scale German adult literacy test (LEO - level-one study), we …

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to …

immigrants, while most of the gap is unexplained. Individuals without German citizenship have a 15,8 percent difference. Here …

. Only immigrants that have been living in the country for a short period of time are found to negatively impact natives … concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …

, and the German second generation pupils. A possible explanation is that all immigrants in Europe have more difficulties in … the thesis that the Turkish immigrants were negatively selected from their native population. The average score of Turkish … show that the negative selectivity of Turkish immigrants can not by explained by the ‘guest-workers’ programs, because the …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …

. Immigrants are often discriminated against in housing, education, health and work. The perceptive aspect (how much immigrants … were conducted. A strong negative relationship between level of job satisfaction and level of perceived discrimination …

unobserved productivity-linked attributes versus market discrimination as determinants of racial inequality in labor market …