literature which studies the effect of the immigrants' characteristics, such as age, gender, education, religion, age at arrival …

workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …

optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction …

, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to … assimilate will be muted. -- Migrants’ behavior ; The effort to assimilate ; Income gains ; Social proximity ; Interpersonal …