This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …

some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …

differences between each migrant’s actual years of education and the estimated typical years of education in the narrowly defined … occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both …

This paper examines whether the subjective well-being of migrants is responsive to fluctuations in macroeconomic … control for migrants' observed and unobserved characteristics. We find strong (mild) evidence that migrants' well … demonstrate that migrants regard home countries as natural comparators and, thereby, suggest an original assessment of the …

on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … migrants, migration experience and the diversity of family arrangements. As a complementary objective, we use SWB measures to … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. …