The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a … theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition … argued that the weak incentive structures for second language acquisition for an immigrant appear in four analytically …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

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

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 …

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the favorable self-selection (supply) of migrants for labor market success. The … be expected to be less intense for non-economic migrants, such as refugees, tied movers and ideological migrants, and for …

migrants into language capital …This paper investigates human capital investments of migrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by … contract or by their own choice. The first part of the paper develops a model, distinguishing between migrants who immigrate on …

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 …

migrants undertake more dangerous crossings. …