This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences … preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic opportunities …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …

differentiating between actual and planned citizenship. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel, we measure the impact that integration …, but not to those educated in Germany. We find that the degree of integration in German society has a differential effect …

literature dealing with the evaluation of labor market programs and with the economic integration of immigrants. Next to …

concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants switches off observable and unobservable differences in …-ethnics increases migrants' interaction cost with natives and thus reduces the likelihood of integration. …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …