Suggested Sources for a Term Paper on Assimilation

Role of the source country

Abramitzky, R.; L. Boustan and K. Eriksson, (2012), :”Europe’s Tired. Poor, Huddled Masses: Self Selection and Economic Ourcomes in the Age of Mass Migration”, American Economic Review, Vol. 102, No. 5, pp 1832-1856, (Consider only pp 1832-1833 and pp 1850.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Abramitzky, R.; L. Boustan and K. Eriksson, (2013), “Have the poor always been less likely to migrate? Evidence from inheritance practices during the age of mass m,igration”, Journal of Development Economics, vol. 102, pp 2-14. (consider only pp 2-3.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Ambrosini, J.; G. Pri, (2012), “The Determinants and the Selection of Mexico-US Migrants”. The World Economy. pp 111-. (Consider only pp 113 and 114.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Blau, F,; L. Khan and K. Papps, (2011), “Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants”, Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp43-58. (Consider only pp 43-45 and 56.)

Borjas, G., (2013), “The Slowdown in the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants: Aging and Cohort Effects Revisited Again”, NBER Working Paper 19116, (Consider only pp 1-5,) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Lopez, M.; F. A. Lozano, (2009), “The Labor Supply of Immigrants in the United States: The Role of Changing Source Country Characteristics”, American Economic Review : Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 99, No. 2, pp 35-40. (Consider onl pp 35 and 38,39.)

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Assimilation as Communities

Hatton, T.; A. Leigh, (2011), “Immigrants assimilate as communities, not just as individuals”, Journal of Population Economics, Vol. 24, pp 389-419. (Consider only pp 3890393 and pp. 414-415.)

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Assimilation , poverty and welfare

Hansen, Jorgen; Lofstrom, Magnus (2003), “Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate into or Out of Welfare?”, Journal of Human Resources v38, n1 (Winter 2003): 74-98.

Hansen, J. and R. Wahlberg, (2009), “Poverty and its persistence: a comparison of natives and immigrants in Sweden”, Revue of Economics of the Household, Vol. 7, pp 105-132. (Consider only pp 107 and 126.)

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Temporary migration and Assimilation

Dustmann, C., (2000) “Temporary migration and economic assimilation”, Swedish Economic Policy Review, Vol. 7, pp 213-244. (PUT ON RESERVE)

Country experiences with assimilation

Campoleti, Michele, M. Gunderson, O. Timofeeva, E. Tsiroullnitchenko, (2013), “Immigrant Assimilation, Canada 1971-2006: Has the Tide Turned?”, Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 34 pp 455-475.(Consider only pp 455-457 and 470-472) (put on reserve)

Clark, K and S. Drinkwater, (2008), “The labour-market performance of recent migrants”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 24, pp 495-516. (Consider onl;y pp 495-499 and pp. 513-514. )

Lemos, Sara, (2013), “Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data”, Labour Economics, Vol. 24, pp 339-353, (Consider only pp 339-340 and p. 351.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Pedace, Roberto and C. DuBois, (2012), “Immigration policy and employment assimilation in the United States”, Applied Economics, Vol. 44, pp 4721-4730. (Consider only pp 4721-4723 and pp 4729.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Sarvimaki, Matti, (2011), Assimilation to a Welfare State: Labor Market Performance and Use of Social Benefits by Immigrants to Finland”, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol, 113, No. 3, pp 665-668. (Consider only pp 665-667 and pp 684-685.) (PUT ON RESERVE)

Venturini, A. and C. Villosio, (2008), “Labor-market assimilation of foreign workers in Italy”, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp 517-541. (Consider only pp 517-520 and pp 34-536,)

Villar, O. A.; and C. del Rio, (2013), “Occuptional segregation in a country of recent mass immigration: evidence from Spain”, Annual of Regional Science, Vol. 50, pp 109-134. (Consider only pp 109-112.)

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