Access to Citizenship and the Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
研究利用两次改革带来的等待时间外生变化，发现更快获得公民身份能提升移民女性就业率、工作时间和工作稳定性，并促进语言和职业培训投资。
Immigrants often have lower employment rates and earnings than natives. Our empirical analysis relies on two reforms generating exogenous variation in the waiting time for citizenship. We find that faster access to citizenship improves the economic situation of immigrant women, especially their labour market attachment with higher employment rates, longer working hours and more stable jobs. Immigrants also invest more in host country‐specific skills like language and vocational training. Faster access to citizenship seems a powerful policy instrument to boost economic integration in countries with traditionally restrictive citizenship policies.