from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …

2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …

the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and … educational expenditure in origin households. More favorable exchange rate shocks also raise hours worked in self-employment and … lead to greater entry into relatively capital-intensive enterprises by migrants' origin households. "--World Bank web site …