, whereas immigration from high‐income countries has leveled it. Given the large inflow of immigrants from low-income countries …

observed for their parents in terms of some economic statuses (wages, income, work hours, and education). Additionally, we …

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this … discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age … difference in favor of father's education over mother's education. …

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this … discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age … difference in favor of father´s education over mother's education. …

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 …

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 …