This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by … focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants’ risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes …

demographic characteristics alter. -- immigrants ; multiculturalism ; assimilation ; Western countries ; logit ; decomposition. … immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration … identify and analyse the characteristics of those people in Western countries who think that immigrants should assimilate …

. We use the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia and find that having been over-educated in the last job held in …

We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an … overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence … in average earnings between groups of immigrants with different ethnic origins. We also find that, on average, immigrants …

tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or … occupational assimilation (relative to their native counterparts). This paper discusses the potential explanations behind this … result and analyzes the consequences of this result in terms of migration policy recommendations. -- wage assimilation …

Youth unemployment in Germany has fallen to its lowest level since German reunification. Between 2005 and 2012 …, unemployment among under 25 year olds has more than halved. By international standards, Germany is in an exceptionally good … position. Nowhere in Europe is youth unemployment lower. However, this is not so much due to structural improvements or …

This paper documents the effect of immigrant concentration on natives’ work schedules. I show that immigrants are more … likely to work at non‐standard hours (i.e. evenings, nights and Sundays) and that a higher proportion of immigrants in the … strongest in sectors and occupations that are more accessible to immigrants. In particular, I find that a 1 standard deviation …