Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

This paper reviews recent research on family dynamics among immigrants and their
descendants in Europe. While there is a large body of literature on various aspects of …

This paper presents a survey of the theoretical and empirical literature on cultural
transmission and socialization. It has been prepared for the Handbook of Social Economics …

We integrate insights from the social embeddedness perspective with research on immigrant
entrepreneurship to theorize on how family resources influence exit from entrepreneurship …

Using millions of historical census records and modern birth certificates, we document that
immigrants assimilated into US society at similar rates in the past and present. We measure …

Are the English proficiency and social outcomes of US immigrants the result of their cultural
preferences or of more fundamental constraints? Using 2000 census microdata, we relate …

This review examines research on immigrant families in the United States from the past
decade from multiple disciplinary perspectives. This work has used variations on …

Previous studies on ethnic intermarriage have been done mainly in the United States and in
other classical immigration countries. This article examines ethnic intermarriage among …

We study the relationship between ethnic identity and labour market outcomes of non-EU
immigrants in Europe. Using the European Social Survey, we find that there is a penalty to …

Immigrants often have lower employment rates and earnings than natives. Our empirical
analysis relies on two reforms generating exogenous variation in the waiting time for …