undertaking them, immigrants will spend more time on them than natives. We identify several activities ﾖ purchasing, education and … immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the … process of assimilation ﾖ what immigrants do with their time ﾖ based on the notion that assimilating activities entail fixed …

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom …

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to … the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental … that, for a given share of immigrants in a neighborhood, immigrant school performance is increasing in the number of highly …

This research exploits the uniquely rich Youth in Transition Survey to investigate access to post-secondary education … (PSE) among the children of Canadian immigrants, including both (i) those who came to this country as immigrants themselves … family structure), by the relatively high education levels of their parents, and other observable factors such as parental …

child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition … indicate that up to 21% of the gap between income ranks of second-generation immigrants and natives is related to differences … in parental background. Once we control for education, family, residence and industry related choices, differences in the …

This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using … terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …

cross-sectional data. In contrast, I use data from a national longitudinal education study to calculate achievement gaps in …

market outcomes, which are all well know elements for the economic assimilation of immigrants. …