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 … assimilate will be muted. -- Migrants’ behavior ; The effort to assimilate ; Income gains ; Social proximity ; Interpersonal …

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 …

We study the assimilation behavior of a group of migrants who live in a city populated by native inhabitants. We … conceptualize the group as a community, and the city as a social space. Assimilation increases the productivity of migrants and …, consequently, their earnings. However, assimilation also brings the migrants closer in social space to the richer native …

We study the assimilation behavior of a group of migrants who live in a city populated by native inhabitants. We … conceptualize the group as a community, and the city as a social space. Assimilation increases the productivity of migrants and …, consequently, their earnings. However, assimilation also brings the migrants closer in social space to the richer native …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …

demonstrating that the “basin of attraction” of new migrants includes cross-national past migrants; and by causally relating the … intensity of the effort that migrants exert to assimilate economically to the extent of their social integration. …