). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural … background. But, central to such a discussion is the pace of cultural assimilation among immigrants – this under-researched topic … is the focus of this paper. It investigates the extent and determinants of British identity among those living in Britain …

across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …

Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …

The cultural assimilation of immigrants into the host society is often equated with prospects for economic success …, with religion seen as a potential barrier. We investigate the role of ethnic enclaves and churches for the assimilation of …. The former sought the preservation of Danish culture and tradition, while the latter encouraged assimilation. We use data …

capital approach and allows for detecting discrimination as well as assimilation processes. The empirical results im-ply that … Europe. Somewhat disappointing, the assimilation hypothesis was clearly rejected for all migrants with again the exception …

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self …

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …

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. …

The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired … assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 … advances, a process of assimilation does exist, except for Asians and, in some circumstances, those from Sub-Saharan Africa …