Migration and Culture -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- About the Series: Frontiers of Economics and Globalization -- About the Volume: Migration and Culture -- About the editors -- About this volume -- List of contributors -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Migration and Culture -- 1. Enclaves and location choice -- 2. Production, earnings, and competition -- 3. Assimilation struggles -- 4. Family issues and the effects of remittances -- 5. Selection, attitudes, and public policy -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part I: Enclaves and Location Choice -- Chapter 2. Informational Cascades and the Decision to Migrate -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. Network externalities -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- Appendix. proof of Proposition 1 -- References -- Chapter 3. The Measurement of Income Polarization by Ethnic Groups: The Case of Israel Population -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measuring polarization when income groups do not overlap -- 3. Measuring polarization when income groups do overlap -- 4. An empirical illustration -- 5. On the concept of Shapley decomposition -- References -- Chapter 4. The Effects of School Quality in the Origin on the Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Country-level data -- 4. Empirical assessment -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Definitions of variables -- Appendix B. Analyses using the Hanushek and Kimko data -- Appendix C. Supplementary results -- References -- Chapter 5. Development and Migration: Lessons from Southern Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The pervasiveness of home bias -- 3. A simple migration model -- 4. Trends in Southern European migrations -- 5. Econometric analysis -- 6. Conclusions and policy implications -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Data and variables appendix -- References.

Chapter 6. Geographic Dispersion and Internal Migration of Immigrants -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical considerations -- 3. Empirical models -- 4. Data -- 5. Results -- 6. Current location choice: Multivariate analysis -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A. Estimates of the effect of location attributes on the current location choices of immigrants, by country of birth -- Appendix B. Estimates of the effect of location attributes on the current location choices of immigrants, by country of birth and year -- Appendix C. Logitistic estimates of the effect of individual characteristics and location attributes on the inter-state migration of foreign-born persons, by country of birth -- References -- Part II: Production, Earnings and Competition -- Chapter 7. Understanding the Wage Dynamics of Immigrant Labor: A Contractual Alternative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The orthodoxy: Country-specific human capital -- 3. The contractual model -- 4. Optimal contracts -- 5. Policy implications -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 8. Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 9. Ethnic Competition and Specialization -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. Specialization of ethnic groups -- 4. Discussion and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 10. Nationality Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Test -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A theory of nationality discrimination -- 3. A test case: Major League Baseball -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix. Summary of studies providing information about ceteris paribus nativesolimmigrant earnings differences -- References -- Chapter 11. Culture, Investment in Language and Earnings -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Review of the literature -- 3. Data -- 4. Method.

5. Results -- 6. The effects of networks on the decision to invest in learning the host country's language -- 7. Summary and conclusion -- References -- Part III: Assimilation Struggles -- Chapter 12. Immigration: America's Nineteenth-Century ''Law and Order Problem?'' -- 1. The first major wave of immigration -- 2. Pennsylvania prison data -- 3. Immigrant arrivals and prison commitments -- 4. Aggregate incarceration experience: immigrants and natives -- 5. Exploring the differences in immigrant and native incarceration -- 6. Variation across immigrant groups: British, Irish, and Germans -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 13. A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 14. Assimilating Under Credit Constraints: Public Support for Private Efforts -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The theoretical framework -- 3. Public support and private assimilation -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 15. Immigrant Networks and the U.S. Bilateral Trade: The Role of Immigrant Income -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Immigrant and the Heckscher-Ohlin model -- 3. Immigrants' income and demand -- 4. Empirical model -- 5. Results -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 16. The Societal Integration of Immigrants in Germany -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic and societal integration -- 3. Empirical strategy and data -- 4. Results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 17. Who Matters Mostquest The Effect of Parent's Schooling on Children's Schooling -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Empirical Results -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 18. Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia.

1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Background on internally displaced people and Roma population in Europe -- 4. Data and descriptive statistics -- 5. The results -- 6. Conclusions and policy recommendations -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Part IV: Family Issues and the Effects of Remittances -- Chapter 19. Household Structure of Recent Immigrants to Israel -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data analysis -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 20. Circular Migration or Permanent Return: What Determines Different Forms of Migrationquest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Framework for analysis -- 3. Background and data -- 4. Econometric specification -- 5. Empirical results -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 21. Labor Migration, Remittances, and Economic Well-Being: A Study of Households in Rajasthan, India -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Labor migration and the role of remittances -- 3. Remittances in India -- 4. Data and variables -- 5. Analysis and findings -- 6. Conclusions -- Appendix. Consumption assets and the mean of SDLV of households with previous overseas workers, with current overseas workers and with no overseas workers -- References -- Chapter 22. Promoting the Educational Success of Latin American Immigrant Children Separated from Parents during Migration -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Policy recommendations from parents and teachers -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 23. Cultural Differences in the Remittance Behaviour of Households: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical considerations -- 3. Data and descriptive statistics -- 4. Empirical results -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part V: Selection, Attitudes and Public Policy.

Chapter 24. FSU Immigrants in Canada: A Case of Positive Triple Selectionquest -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 3. Data -- 4. Regressions results -- 5. Two-stage models -- 6. Simulations -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 25. What Drives Immigration Policyquest Evidence Based on a Survey of Governments' Officials -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Political economy model of migration policy -- 3. Governments' views and policies toward immigration -- 4. Individual attitudes toward immigrants -- 5. Individual opinions and immigration policy -- 6. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 26. Changes in Attitudes toward Immigrants in Europe: Before and After the Fall of the Berlin Wall -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The determinants of anti- immigrant attitudes -- 3. The eurobarometer survey and the empirical model -- 4. Results -- 5. Changes in attitudes: a decomposition analysis -- 6. Summary and conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 27. The Implications of Social Norms on Immigration Policy -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The model -- 3. The distribution of immigration over time -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 28. Ethnic Fragmentation, Conflict, Displaced Persons and Human Trafficking: An Empirical Analysis -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data -- 3. Empirical methodology and results -- 4. Conclusion -- Appendix -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.