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 …

on the migrant’s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …

This paper studies occupational mobility of ethnic German migrants who have entered Germany since 1984. The empirical … analysis suggests significant differences in the probability of downward occupational mobility by gender, immigration status …, and schooling levels. In general, migrants with higher skill levels face sharper deteriorations in their relative labor …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant’s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants’ location choice. …

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 …