This paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of language capital amongstimmigrants, and the effect of language deficiencies on the economic performance of secondgeneration immigrants...

This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the...

This paper examines the changes in the labour market experience of different immigrantand ethnic minority groups in the UK over time. The analysis suggests that, in early 90salthough there was no clear cut evidence of segregation in terms of employability, certaingroups of minority natives were...

Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their ethnicity (or Hispanic origin) and their ancestry. We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these questions reflect varying degrees of ethnic...

This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants inSwitzerland. An IV approach based on data from two different data sets is used. As there is noadequate data on fathers, I revert to information from a period that differs from actual fathers’work period....

We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with severalother surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EUaccession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, aswell as selection issues...

This paper studies the determinants of naturalization among Turkish and ex-Yugoslavimmigrants in Germany differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using theGerman Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration and ethnicityindicators exert on the probability to...

Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the immigrants`...

Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to theiremployees. We analyze the national composition of the employees and ask if self-employedimmigrants mainly employ workers from their home region and if self-employed nativesmainly employ native workers...

We analyze how an entry regulation that imposes a mandatory educational standard affectsentry into self-employment and occupational mobility. We exploit the German reunification asa natural experiment and identify regulatory effects by comparing differences betweenregulated occupations and...