Perhaps it does. We propose a model in which workers with little education or in the tails of the age distribution the inexperienced and the old have more chance of job failure (mismatch). Recruits' average education should then increase and the standard deviation of starting age decrease when...

"This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which nativeborn women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service...

"This paper analyses the (self-)selection of migrants between countries which have substantial differences in the inequality of earnings and income levels. In an extended version of the Roy-model we consider migration costs, which tend to grow less than proportional with the income level. As a...