'The economics of immigration literature has grown in the last decade to reflect the complexity of economic issues arising from international migration. This collection is a comprehensive research resource which allows both the student and scholar to keep abreast with traditional topics and...

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 the authors study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this period the share of foreign born over the total population has grown by almost fifty percent, and both the characteristics and geographical distribution of immigrants show...

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick -- Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers -- Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep -- Modeling immigrants language skills / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller -- Green cards and the location...