immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …

for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for … unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …

matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and … likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for selfemployed natives. The … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and …

This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their … time that immigrants spend in the US and over generations. Information friction may be an explanation. …

In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …

Using new and unique linked employer-employee data from Germany, I examine the extent to which immigrants sort into … worse-paying establishments and worse job positions within establishments. The results demonstrate that recent immigrants … find that immigrants are employed in lower hierarchical positions. Both the non-random sorting across establishments and …

, we find robust evidence that these regions experienced a much stronger influx of highly educated immigrants in absolute … terms as well as relative to lower educated groups. Our results suggest that immigrants' location decisions respond strongly …

immigration, low-skilled unemployment, and mediumskill downgrading, ii) the increase in low skill intensive service jobs. The … workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate under endogenous benefits; (ii) migration of only medium skilled labor has …