international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the …

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We … estimate that households in the USA, on average, had about five hundred daily calories per equivalent adult more than their … French and German counterparts, with Belgian and British workers closer to the USA levels. We ask if that energy bonus gave …

conduct a three-stage analysis. First we employ latent class analysis to allocate the migrants to six migrant types. Second … measures of integration.We reveal substantial heterogeneity among migrants and some evolving ‘new' migrant types alongside more … traditional labour migrants. We show how these types are associated with differences in pre-migration human capital, region of …

adaptation of Respondent Driven Sampling, a chain- referral technique, to sample migrants from Pakistan and Poland who had … conclude that RDS is unlikely to be suitable for accessing newly arrived migrants. However, in the absence of registers which …

ethnic minorities, especially for Muslims. This result casts doubts on the foundations of the integration policies in Europe …