The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … non-linear model which is estimated, using repeated cross-section data. Using data on immigrants from the former Soviet … Union to Israel, we find that upon arrival, immigrants receive no return for imported skills. In the five years following …

This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …

attitudes towards them. Insufficient knowledge of the official language, insufficient education, discriminatory attitudes and …