We analyze the assimilation patterns of Muslim immigrants in Western countries with a unique identification strategy …. Survey and experimental data collected in France in 2009 suggest that Muslims and rooted French are locked in a suboptimal … equilibrium whereby (i) rooted French exhibit taste-based discrimination against those they are able to identify as Muslims and …

capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … individually diverging efficiency ratios are not well understood, with discrimination only found for ethnic Germans from Eastern … Europe. Somewhat disappointing, the assimilation hypothesis was clearly rejected for all migrants with again the exception …

and immigrants relative to the frontier, the wage discrimination hypothesis is rejected. Actually, human capital … well as from Turkey are steeper than the respective frontier of natives, which supports the assimilation hypothesis. No … assimilation is found for migrants from the European Union and from the former Yugoslavia. …

. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …

.S. society. This study examines the impact of institutional discrimination on the assimilation of Chinese by exploiting the …The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 banned Chinese immigration and institutionalized discrimination against Chinese in U … passage of the Act and the state-level variation in the intensity of discrimination, measured by the voting outcomes of the …