The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of
specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific …

Are immigration and crime related? This review addresses this question in order to build a
deeper understanding of the immigration-crime relationship. We synthesize the recent …

An in-depth look at the challenges undocumented immigrants face as they raise children in
the US There are now nearly four million children born in the United States who have …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of
language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of
Mexico-US migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the impact of networks on …

This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The
survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various …

I examine the effects of the ethnic enclave size on labor market outcomes of immigrants. I
account for ability sorting into enclaves by exploiting a Danish spatial dispersal policy under …

This article develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the
hypotheses using data on males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia …

The focus of this AKI research review is the significance of language for the integration of
immigrants into host societies. The background is the emergence and consolidation of …