The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …

following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital …

immigrants, have a significant negative impact on the wages of low-skilled natives. This suggests that immigrants become closer …Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of … increase in the fraction of foreign-born workers tends to lower the wages of natives in blue collar occupations - particularly …

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative …

This paper uses the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia to analyze the determinants of the level and growth … in earnings of adult male immigrants in their first 3.5 years in Australia. The theoretical framework is based on the … for immigrants with higher levels of skill and who are economic/skills tested migrants, as distinct from family based and …

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component … effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into …

Blacks and Hispanics when compared to whites in the U.S. However, that is not the case for immigrants relative to the natives …

We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of … immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … and family migrants. We find that intermarried immigrants outperformed intramarried ones in employment rates and salaries …

In the debate over immigration reform, it is frequently asserted that immigrants take jobs that U.S. natives do not … immigrants are more physically arduous than the jobs held by U.S. natives. However, data from the California Work and Health … Survey on self-reported physical job demands indicate that immigrants do not perceive their jobs as requiring more physical …

The influx of immigrants has shifted the ethnic composition of public schools in many states including North Carolina …