immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration … identify and analyse the characteristics of those people in Western countries who think that immigrants should assimilate … culturally and how they differ from those who think that immigrants should preserve a separate cultural existence? By doing so …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour …, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs are effective for immigrants. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 … unemployment: training, job search assistance, wage subsidies and subsidised public sector employment. We find that only wage …

This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by … focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a … risk proclivity by reducing immigrants' risk aversion and explains the systematic variation in the observed risk attitudes …

concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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 …

Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI—body mass … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences of … such assimilation. Policymakers could benefit from a discussion of the impact of immigrant obesity on labor market outcomes …

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 …