The approach adopted here to measure employment assimilation is based on the idea of assimilation having occurred when immigrants' employment probability levels catch up with those of natives (following Borjas 1985, 1999).
I saw my first Islamist recruitment in the mid-eighties in Dreux, a town near Chartres with a small but decent measure of assimilation.
The proper measure of assimilation is not whether ethnic groups have cut their ties to their homeland completely, but whether they have put down roots in the United States.
Because this happened when birthrates for Hispanic-Americans were among the highest of any ethnic or racial group, the rankings just might be a measure of assimilation, said Prof. Cleveland Kent Evans, who teaches psychology at Bellevue University in Nebraska and wrote "The Great Big Book of Baby Names".
This study was designed to experimentally measure the assimilation efficiency of hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in a warm-water, benthic-feeding fish species, the channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus).
Each additional year in Britain is associated with a 0.5% increase in hourly pay, which may be viewed as a measure of assimilation.
Social scientists have primarily relied on four markers to measure cultural assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language attainment and intermarriages.
4Additional measures of assimilation include fertility rates (higher for non-assimilated), labor force participation for women (lower among non-assimilated), and English fluency (lower among non-assimilated).
Gould and Klor ([2013]) use per capita hate crimes, that is, total hate crimes against Muslims relative to the size of the Arab and Islamic population in a state during a given year, to examine changes in measures of assimilation among the US Arab and Islamic population.
Further, we measured CO2 assimilation at 48 hpi and observed a decrease of the assimilation rate of more than 60% for Xcc while for ΔXacPNP this value declined to 80% of the control (Figure 3F).
