Early exposure to two languages is widely thought to guarantee successful bilingual
development. Contradicting that belief, children in bilingual immigrant families who grow up …

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 article attempts to improve our understanding of the causal processes that contribute to
intergenerational immobility by exploiting historical changes in compulsory schooling laws …

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 …

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 …

The vast majority of international migrants from developing countries are of working age.
And yet, their integration in the formal local labor market of their host countries continues to …

The labour market integration of immigrants has been a key issue both in the public debate
and on the government agenda in Denmark, triggered by unfavourable employment …

We discuss some of the data and methodological challenges to estimating trends in family
formation and union dissolution as well as fertility among immigrants, and examine the …

Using Norwegian registry data, I study the intergenerational transmission of educational
attainment and adult earnings from immigrant parents to their second-generation children …

The authors investigated the relationships among multiple aspects of parental involvement
(English proficiency, school involvement, control and monitoring of children), children's …