Optimal immigration and cultural assimilation

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Konya, Istvan
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/511378
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 367-391
• 关键词: investment; earnings; MARKET

摘要

This article develops a model that examines the role of cultural conflict in immigration and immigration policy. Cultural differences lead to frictions between natives and immigrants unless the latter make a costly investment to assimilate. This article's key contribution is the joint analysis of the assimilation and migration decisions, which highlights the inefficiency of some commonly advocated policy tools to achieve the first best. U. S. data provide preliminary support for the model's implications.