Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …

Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of …

facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …

integration of the eight million expellees who arrived in West Germany after World War II. We first document that integration …

settlement and integration programmes to improve labour market and other outcomes that affect well-being. This chapter looks at …

Integration of immigrants is a two-way process involving immigrants and the host country society. An underexplored … question is how events of xenophobic violence in the host country affect the integration of immigrants. For this purpose, I …-economic integration of immigrants. In particular, it reduces subjective well-being and increases return intentions, while it reduces …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host countryś society, and economic assimilation as … income gap with the natives. In this way, social integration becomes a catalyst for economic assimilation. …

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the …