This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

-theoretic approach to show that, even in situations where migrants and natives prefer to marry within their own community, the search … process may lead to intermarriage. The exogamy can take on two forms: either migrants and natives each hold on to their own …

A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …

how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …

Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways - immigrant societies are multi … the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete …

This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals … different types of diagnoses. Our estimates are precise enough to rule out large effects of income inequality on health. …