unprecedented boom of immigration from three localized areas: Latin America, Africa and East Europe. In this paper, we study the … so called, 'immigration boom ', but at the expense of allocating immigrants in bad job-matches. …

across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …

The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired … assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide initial earnings gap. Recent studies (Chiswick and Miller, 2007 … advances, a process of assimilation does exist, except for Asians and, in some circumstances, those from Sub-Saharan Africa …

individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … immigrants. Finally, if the level of immigration is not too high, then immigration also raises the net benefits to assimilation …This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model …

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …

following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have …