-time employment, usually while attending an education institution. Three years after arrival one third of NES immigrants are now …Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of …

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part … outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often perceived as irrational and suboptimal choices. Quantifying ethnic … or the earnings of immigrants. The thin but burgeoning theoretical and empirical literature shows that ethnic identity …

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over … 2001–2009 for a large, nationally-representative sample of immigrants. Previous assimilation estimates have been mainly …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …

including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …. Thus, under this auction scheme Canadian workers are compensated for the presence of temporary immigrants, and the actual …

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 …

of immigrants and natives drawn in 2005 to assess the occupational attainment of immigrants in Ireland relative to … natives. It is found that immigrants, on average, are less likely to be in high-level occupations controlling for factors such … as age and education. When looked at by year of arrival, it appears as if immigrants who arrived more recently have lower …

This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in … Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual taxation records. The 2007 Swedish Register Data includes information on …

in Danish municipalities during the period 1989-2001. We find that the immigrant share has some notable effects. The anti-immigration … parties are among those that win votes when the immigrant share increases, but a pro-immigration party on the left also gains … from an increase in the immigrant share. The non-socialist party that is most pro-immigration, however, loses votes when …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their … experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a … higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services. …