work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of natives, we match the data also with an equivalent … survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese migrants as a whole are negatively selected with the exception of … blue-collar workers that are the greatest group among them. The observation that Portuguese migrants earn more than …

The paper evaluates the potential gains from labour immigration for the European Union. After a review of the East …-West migration problem and recent western migration policies, governmentally controlled labour immigration is studied in a framework … immigration if both types of workers are complements. Only skilled migration reduces unemployment, however. This disequilibrium …

panel data from Germany. More than 60% of migrants from the guestworker countries are indeed repeat or circular migrants …. Migrants from European Union member countries, those not owning a dwelling in Germany, the younger and the older (excluding the … migrants with German passports exit more frequently, while those with higher education exit less; there are no differences with …

language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …