A Political Economy of the Immigrant Assimilation: Internal Dynamics

Gil Epstein and Ira Gang

No 2010-13, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete against one another by helping their country-folk and to win grants from the foundation. We develop a model that considers how such a competition affects the resources invested by the groups’ supporters and how beneficial it is to immigrants. We consider two alternative rewards systems for supporters – absolute and relative ranking – in achieving their goals.

Date: 2010-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mic, nep-mig and nep-pol
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