levels, single immigrants have a wealth advantage of almost $185,000 relative to single native-born individuals. Although the …

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I … labour markets. Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on … also seems important for finding cohort effects. Immigrants that arrived before 1976 faced a larger wage gap compared to …

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

the first estimates of the quantitative significance of these agents to African American migration. Specifically, we take … migration out of the two states, we find that the emigrant agent laws had no direct effect on migration. Though there is some … limited evidence that the sensitivity of migration flows to economic differences within the South was lower if an emigrant …

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I …

There is a large econometric literature that examines the economic assimilation of immigrants in the United States and … elsewhere. On the whole immigrants are seen as atomistic individuals assimilating in a largely anonymous labour market, a view … that runs counter to the spirit of the equally large literature on ethnic groups. Here we argue that immigrants assimilate …

status of immigrants entering Australia under different immigration programs. In particular, do immigrants selected on the … after migration? To what extent does this represent a head start as opposed to long-term labour market advantage …? Information fron the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA) are used address these questions. …