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 …

for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect … other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

migration. We begin by exploring the three broad research areas that economists examine when researching immigration. We then …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an … likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …

produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …

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 …

We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to … estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) on immigrants’ labor market outcomes using a triple …