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 …

This paper studies to what extent immigrants have less access to main- stream credit than their native counterparts … credit ap- plications from immigrants and natives and the corresponding bank decisions. I do not …nd that immigrants have a … loans to immigrants from African descent compared to their Nordic-born counterparts. Robustness tests based on data from …

occupational norms for adult male immigrants. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a …

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse what are the … consequences of such attitudes on immigrants' welfare. A well educated immigrant from a non developed country who lives in a … would reduce the wage gap to well-educated immigrants from developed countries by 70%. We interpret this effect as evidence …

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … model, and examines the empirical relevance of the hypothesis using data on immigrants from the English-speaking developed … cohort effects, “negative” assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the …

the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for …-education is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over …-education declines with duration in the US as high-skilled immigrants obtain jobs commensurate with their educational level. Years of …

This paper analyzes the determinants of interethnic marriages by immigrants in the United States. The dependent … assortative mating by education for immigrants. The construction of the availability ratio for potential spouses from one’s own … immigrant’s mother tongue from English indirectly measures the effect of English language ability at arrival and is found to be …

immigrants and natives remain in the long run. Employment assimilation is more or less immediate for labour immigrants, while it … takes approximately twenty years for non-labour immigrants to obtain the same employment status as natives and labour … immigrants. We also find that the high educated non-labour immigrants’ income of work lag behind those of high educated natives …