determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007 …, the paper examines returns to human capital of immigrants, distinguishing between human capital accumulated in their home … transferability of the latter. The only exception occurs in the case of immigrants from developed countries and immigrants who have …

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …

.K. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares … average years of the immigrants by 3.5 years. (ii) The Mexican immigrants suffer a 10% reduction in their effective hours of … point system and increases output per capita differences between both countries. (iv) The offspring of the immigrants invest …

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …