This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort …

their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the … predictions of straight-line assimilation theory, along with the general improvement of immigrants' objective living conditions … with their length of stay. Using European Social Survey data, we show that the subjective well-being assimilation of first …

. We further examine the labor supply and wage assimilation of families whose members immigrated together relative to …

, highlighting potential differences between countries and between the European Union (EU) and non-EU migrants. The results highlight …-term process or "experienced" activity. The findings also show that in most cases, migrants do not attend the cultural activities … integration of migrants could be the primary driver of cultural participation and integration. …

possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration and marginalization … for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender … differences and the unimportance of a wide range of pre-migration characteristics like religion and education at home …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants … robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …