This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … behaviours and attitudes of migrants are diverging from or converging with those of natives. Chapter 2 examines the causes of … differences preventing the successful integration of migrants or does the root of integration failures lie in unequal economic …

approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants. …This paper investigates whether host society culture affects migrant wage discrimination, i.e. whether migrant wage … discrimination is more intense in host societies where culture is more inward-looking. The motivation for this investigation in the …

politiques preferentielles de discrimination positive, modelisees sous forme d'une taxation des minorites ethniques au profit des …

and whether to migrate in their adulthood. Assuming a rent-extraction basis for discrimination, we first endogenize ethnic … discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … on the minority. Moreover, the optimal discrimination rate (from the majority’s perspective) is shown to be such that …

We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …

Sample allows us to study this social integration by migrants in greater detail. Barriers to integration and discrimination … der IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe kann die soziale Integration von Migrantinnen und Migranten vertieft untersucht werden … die Lebenszufriedenheit von Migranten, aber auch ihre Identifikation mit Deutschland neben strukturellen Faktoren wie …

and discrimination? How legitimate are claims arguing migrants are economically discriminated because they don't integrate …This paper examines the endogenous relationship between the economic and cultural integration of migrants in … Switzerland or, more precisely, how economic and cultural barriers to integration reinforce each other. Are cultural differences …

immigration; and the links between immigration policy and race relations. This is followed by an examination of the education and …

potentially discriminated group is small. Our results show no wage discrimination but a certain degree of occupational segregation … diplomas might reveal mechanisms of statistical discrimination on the labor market. …