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Immigrants Self-Selection And Economic Assimilation

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Recall that theories of immigrants’ self-selection and economic assimilation refer to the individual immigrants’ decision-making process in which they try to maximize their utility when deciding whether to migrate. However, other models of migration have focused on households’ decision-making, especially at the family level. The microeconomic model of family migration suggests that families migrate when the benefits of moving for the entire family exceed its costs (Mincer, 1978). Therefore migration should results in positive net returns for the family total utility. Individual family members are assumed to suppress their own opportunities and interests to the interests of the entire household when making migration decisions (Bielby and Bielby,

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