The often expressed societal norms and even political innuendos that migrants should assimilate is not a conclusion which can be derived from economic reasoning. First, migrant group hardly ever reach economic assimilation, at least not the first generation migrants. If people with a migration background, such as second generation migrants, are performing like natives in an economic sense, they are often also ethnically assimilated. Second, labor migrants pulled by the host country are requested because they exhibit scarce characteristics – in the short or the long-run. Hence, they are wanted because they carry talent or skills which are not sufficiently produced at a certain time or because they bring with them ethic capital that is valuable for the global competitiveness of the receiving economy. Research is needed to better understand and empirically validate ethnic capita; and its potential use in the economy