Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …

immigrants’ stock. On the other hand, there is an increase in regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … the government has in mind a specific upper bound on immigrants, and the policies adopted (admission requirements or …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …

whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and non-migrants in the German labour market. Starting from the …

Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more … liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration … also larger for poorer and more recent immigrants, but essentially zero for traditional guest workers. Overall …

explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … paper, we provide some evidence in favor of the discrimination hypothesis. Using a cross section of 13 countries, we show … that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show …