We examine the extent to which assimilation and residential ethnic enclaves are associated with immigrant access to … they can protect immigrants from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the workplace and can help immigrant smokers … quit smoking. We first document that immigrants have lower access to these benefits than natives. Second, we show that …

We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. … the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from …

cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … transferability of skills. This paper addresses whether positive assimilation will be found if skills are very highly transferable …

immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post …There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of …-arrival earnings profiles of immigrants in the US from non-English-speaking countries according to the linguistic distance of their …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation … for other origins. Among women, the pattern of assimilation in earnings and employment is more positive than among their …

cohort effects, “negative” assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … transferability of skills. This paper addresses whether positive assimilation will be found if skills are very highly transferable …