concentrated in jobs with lower initial status but higher upward mobility. The difference in assimilation over time is thus rooted …

Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …

Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …twenty years. While men experience moderate wage assimilation, evidence is mixed for women …

negatively-selected return migrants. We show that assimilation patterns vary substantially across sending countries and persist …

communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …

an "assimilation" effect on the self-employment propensity of immigrants? Finally, are the more recent waves of …, positive impact of assimilation on self-employment rates; and that more recent waves of immigrants are opting with increasing …