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. …

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 …

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …

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 …

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …