capital and, in particular, language proficiency for socio-economic assimilation. …

continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

meaningfulness. The study also finds evidence of emotional assimilation over time, with happiness disparities between immigrants and …This study investigates the emotional experiences of immigrants and native- born individuals in the United States …. The results reveal that when viewed through the evaluation lenses of the general US population, immigrants engage in less …

demonstrate several new empirical findings. First, Japanese immigrants exhibit daughter preference. Second, assortative matching … high degree of heterogeneity across groups. Most of the second- and higher-order generation immigrants assimilate more …

-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high …-skilled natives are more likely to be self-employed than high-skilled immigrants. Models of the self-employment decision, controlling …. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants …