immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation – what immigrants do with their time – based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed … costs. The theory predicts that immigrants will be less likely than natives to undertake such activities, but conditional on …

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …

the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …

The impact of living in an ethnic enclave on earnings growth of immigrants in Canada is examined using the 1981 …–2001 Censuses. Consistent with U.S. findings, enclaves are found to have a negative impact on the earnings growth of male immigrants …. A negative impact is also found for female immigrants. Living in an enclave was found to be particularly harmful for …

both in terms of schooling degree and probability of having to repeat a grade. These findings are likely driven by …

The aim of this paper is to study whether schooling choices are affected by social interactions. Such social … eligible children tend to attend school more frequently, (ii) but also the ineligible children acquire more schooling when the …