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This lecture is part of the Doctoral Lecture Series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility 2025-2026
The Doctoral School of Economics, Finance and Management (DSEFM) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) are happy to invite you to the next lecture of the 2025/2026 edition of our Doctoral Lecture series on Cross-Border Labor Mobility.
The lecture “The Assimilation of Immigrants in their Host Countries” will be given by Albrecht Glitz from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
A lunch will be served at 12.00 upon invitation only (LISER/UNI participants attending onsite are automatically enrolled).
Abstract:
This lecture examines how immigrants assimilate into their host societies. It will provide an overview of the key empirical patterns observed across countries and highlight the main obstacles and facilitators of the assimilation process. Particular attention will be given to immigrant wage assimilation and the challenges involved in accurately measuring it using standard datasets. An important insight is that immigrants’ wage assimilation is closely linked to the labour market impact of immigrants and the size and composition of new arrival cohorts. We will discuss the underlying theoretical mechanism for this interplay and study how it has shaped immigrants’ wage assimilation profiles in the United States over recent decades.
About Albrecht Glitz:
Albrecht Glitz is working as an associate professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, where he is also affiliated with the Institute of Political Economy and Governance (IPEG) and the Barcelona School of Economics (BSE).
He holds a PhD in Economics from University College London. He is a research fellow at IZA, CEPR, CESifo and CReAM (the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration) and a Project Leader at RFBerlin. His research interests are in labour economics, in particular the economics of immigration, where he currently works on issues related to immigrant wage assimilation and the labour market impact of immigration.He was an IZA Research Affiliate from July 2006 until March 2009 and became an IZA Research Fellow in August 2009.
Language: English
This is a free lecture. Registration is mandatory.
This is a hybrid event, a Webex link will be shared one week prior to the event.
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Supported by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) (PRIDE19/14302992) and (RESCOM/25/19439574)
