This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the … earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty … years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives with similar labor market experience. By comparison, estimates of …

This paper specifies and estimates a structural model of international migration using micro data. This provides a … direct test of human capital theory that suggests that individuals respond to the earnings differentials across countries … while making their migration decisions. The paper specifies migration as a joint outcome of two decision makers, i.e. the …

paper. Within this framework, we identify and model two complementary mechanisms for skill biased migration flows to take … place. The first one resides in the way wages are set. If, in fact, the most skilled workers are not paid their productivity …

and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business … strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland …

This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the … household registration system in China, the profile of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the … interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special reference to labor market segregation, labor market …

The consequences of international migration for development in countries of origin and destination remain hotly debated … (attending a school), if the immigration police only authorizes very short migration. …

This study analyses the role played by adjustment costs and R&D investment prices in total R&D productivity. The … results show that on average, for each monetary unit increase in adjustment costs produces a fall in productivity of 0 …