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Economic Assimilation Of Family Immigrants

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As stated at the outset, public and academic debates around the world have centered on the economic assimilation of immigrants. When evaluating economic assimilation, the literature has focused mainly on individual immigrants, pointing to two main determinants of economic assimilation, namely immigrants’ patterns of self-selection (Chiswick, 1978; Borjas, 1985) and the host country’s reception context (Borjas, 1994; Portes and Rumbaut, 1990). However, theories of family migration claim that migration decisions are taken at the household level (Bielby and Bielby, 1992; Mincer, 1978; Massey, 1990; Massey et al., 1993, 1994; Stark, 1991), and that the assimilation process is affected by family attributes (Baker and Benjamin, 1997; Cobb-Clark and

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