Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2 … recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged …

characteristics or immigration policy, but may reflect immigrants' resilience to economic shocks …

skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no differential immigrant-native changes in higher …

labor supply. We find that more skilled US-born workers - along with unrestricted immigrants from Mexico and Canada - moved …

United States maintained open borders. Using a novel dataset of Norway-to-US migrants, we estimate the return to migration … while accounting for migrant selection across households by comparing migrants with their brothers who stayed in Norway. We … also compare the fathers of migrants and non-migrants by wealth and occupation, and examine migrants' assimilation in the …

, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market …

a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the … migrants achieved a greater depth of English vocabulary than did economic/family migrants, a finding that holds even when … comparing migrants from the same country of origin or religious group. This study improves on previous research on immigrant …

similar historically and today despite dramatic shifts in sending countries and US immigration policy. In the past, this …

Migration (1850-1913). Return migrants were somewhat negatively selected from the migrant pool: Norwegian immigrants who … moving to the US. Upon returning to Norway, return migrants held higher-paid occupations than Norwegians who never moved … despite being negatively selected, return migrants were able to accumulate savings and improve their economic circumstances …