location choice of immigrants and the reflection problem. We exploit a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany to identify … of peer effect we restrict to no-child-adult-peers who completed their education much before the children in our sample …

In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried … out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals' human and social capital. For … immigrants the private investment in these activities is likely to have relevant external effects as informal learning and …

known about the private return to education, much less is known about the more important question of what happens to … of human capital can benefit society in ways that are not fully reflected in the private return of education. Human … individual productivity. Furthermore, increases in education can reduce criminal participation and improve voters political …

immigrants in Germany. We find that a parametric model which explicitly allows for misclassification performs better than a …

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on … immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

literature which studies the effect of the immigrants' characteristics, such as age, gender, education, religion, age at arrival …, stock of immigrants in the host country, etc., on their ethnic identity (such as the Ethnosizer). In addition, this paper …

, separation or marginalization. A large body of literature has emerged examining the effects of immigrants' characteristics (age …, gender, education, religion, etc.) on their ethnic identity using the ethnosizer. This note presents a basic theoretical …

capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and … the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …