This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation … evidence supporting our two-effect theory and the magnitudes of both effects are sizable and near in scale. The assimilation …

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 …

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

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

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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