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. …

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 the residential mobility behaviour of migrants and natives in the Netherlands using a rich … to be about 18 percentage points lower for nonwestern migrants than for natives. About 65 percent of the differential is …. No indication is found of the spatial assimilation of second-generation nonwestern migrants. On the other hand, the …

In the last three decades, the population of Amsterdam has been ‘coloured’ due to immigration flows from abroad and a … mobility behaviour of migrants and natives are generated by neighbourhood characteristics – among which the level of ethnic … individual data covering the entire population of the city. The analysis shows that Caribbean (Surinamese and Antillean) migrants …