The economics of immigration and social diversity [electronic resource] / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, Carmel Chiswick, Hillel Rapoport.

Is immigration good or bad for the economy? Analysis of attitudinal responses / Christian Dustmann, Ian Preston -- The effects of incomplete employee wage information : a cross-country analysis / Solomon W. Polachek, Jun (Jeff) Xiang -- The linguistic and economic adjustment of soviet jewish immigrants in the United States, 1980-2000 / Barry R. Chiswick, Michael Wenz -- Multi-generation model of immigrant earnings : theory and application / Joseph Deutsch, Gil S. Epstein, Tikva Lecker -- Ethnic origin and multidimensional relative poverty in Israel : a study based on the 1995 Israeli census / Joseph Deutsch, Jacques Silber -- Immigrants in the Israeli hi-tech industry : comparison to natives and the effect of training / Sarit Cohen-Goldner -- What do wage differentials tell about labor market discrimination? / June E. O'Neill, Dave M. O'Neill -- Cultural diversity, status concerns and the organization of work / Chaim Fershtman, Hans K. Hvide, Yoram Weiss -- Ethnic diversity, market structure and risk sharing in developing countries / Mohamed Jellal, Yves Zenou -- On the law of return in rural-urban interactions : an economic approach to solidarity with return migrants / Carine Drapier, Hubert Jayet, Hillel Rapoport -- An economic perspective on religious education : complements and substitutes in a human capital portfolio / Carmel U. Chiswick -- The impact of immigrant dynasties on wage inequality / Michael Ben-Gad -- Does immigration affect labor demand? Model and test / Örn B. Bodvarsson, Hendrik Van den Berg -- Lenient policy proposal for the struggle against illegal immigration / Nava Kahana, Tikva Lecker.

This volume is a collection of papers dedicated to the memory of the late Tikva Lecker. Professor Lecker's many interests included topics in labor economics, women and the economy, the economics of Judaism, the economics of migration and every aspect of the economic experience of immigrants and their descendants. Each chapter in this volume honors the memory of Professor Lecker by presenting research on a topic in which she was especially interested. The Research in Labor Economics series was started in 1977. Each volume consists of a collection of refereed research papers written by top economists. Recent volumes have hosted papers from D. Acemoglu, J.D. Angrist, D. Card, H. Farber, A. Kreuger, E. Lazear, G. Field, and J. Mincer, among others.