across US counties during the Age of Mass Migration. To do so we combine a unique USPTO historical patent dataset with Census …

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to the Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …

possible paths of adjustment from separation at entry, namely the transitions to assimilation, integration and marginalization … for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender … differences and the unimportance of a wide range of pre-migration characteristics like religion and education at home …

This chapter deals with the economic and ethnic diversity caused by international labor migration, and their economic … integration possibilities. It brings together three strands of literature dealing with the neoclassical economic assimilation … remuneration has been the core of research in the labor migration literature. If immigrants fare as well as the natives, then they …

the US by following the location choices of thousands of them across counties during the Age of Mass Migration. To do so …

how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the …Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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 …

We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically and from a … global viewpoint whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our … similarity for a large number of country pairs and exploit within country-pair variation over time. Our results support migration …

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …