German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native born West Germans. Ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Europe …

networks exist when assimilation is not complete. We consider the struggle of migrants to assimilate and, at the same time, the … are those that form between migrants and natives in the host country and between migrants and their home country. Ethnic … struggle of the local population to prevent such assimilation. These activities affect trade possibilities. Moreover, we show …

family members of induced migrants, and follow-up data show that treated households continue to re-migrate at a higher rate … after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … individual-specific learning (e.g. resolving the uncertainty about matching to an employer), and (c) some migrants are close to …

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first … city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows us to test our model by focusing on first-time migration. Strong … fraction of migrants from the village in which the individual resides. We address the endogeneity of the network formation in …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in … Western countries. Third, we find evidence of a large positive impact of the local share of migrants on local workers' wages …

. This study evaluates the causes of this phenomenon and tests for the effects of assimilation, cohort, age at migration, and … household social assistance dependence. Assimilation and age at migration increase the probability of social assistance …