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 …

panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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 … whose societal conditions strongly improved by migration and immigrants who arrived after childhood. Faltering societal …

focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a …

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

immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation. The estimated effect of these measures on risk proclivity suggests that … could also help explain differences in economic assimilation of immigrants. …

We empirically assess the relationship between cultural assimilation and subjective well-being of immigrants by using …

remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic …

called the "ethnosizer". Using information on an individual's language, culture, social interactions, history of migration …, and ethnic selfidentification, the method classifies that individual into one of four states: assimilation, integration …