demographic characteristics alter. -- immigrants ; multiculturalism ; assimilation ; Western countries ; logit ; decomposition. …

Vater leben. Doch nach der Rückkehr des Vaters kehren sich die Verhältnisse wieder um. -- migration ; remittances …

focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a … ; assimilation ; second generation effects ; gender …

do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not … results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … remittances is the primary factor explaining male labor force participation. -- migration ; remittances ; labor markets …

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

Recent evidence suggests that aid induces migration. This result is nevertheless not very informative from a policy … perspective since what counts in terms of welfare consequences is the composition of migration. In this paper we focus on … education and study which of skilled or unskilled migration is more sensitive to aid. More specifically we investigate the …

migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for … the possibility that migrants came with an intention to acquire host country citizenship. Using data from a 2007 survey of …