A controversial issue in the US is how to reduce the number of illegal immigrants and what effect this would have on … illegal immigrants among the low skilled. We calibrate it to the US and Mexican economies during the period 2000-2010. As … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

A controversial issue in the US is how to reduce the number of illegal immigrants and what effect this would have on … illegal immigrants among the low skilled. We calibrate it to the US and Mexican economies during the period 2000-2010. As … immigrants, especially illegal ones, have a worse outside option than natives their wages are lower. Hence their presence reduces …

Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the … allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that … unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spells typically delay returns. The …

Using administrative panel data on the entire population of new labour immigrants to The Netherlands, we estimate the … allows for correlated unobserved heterogeneity across migration, unemployment and employment processes. We find that … unemployment spells increase return probabilities for all immigrant groups, while re-employment spells typically delay returns. The …

the migration decision from economic conditions at the time of arrival. A one pp higher unemployment rate at arrival … members, potentially reducing their geographical mobility. …

Higher price levels in the destination relative to the origin increase the effective real wages of immigrants, thereby … affecting immigrants' reservation and entry wages as well as their subsequent career trajectories. Based on micro … (RER) between Germany and countries that newly joined the European Union in the 2000s, we find that immigrants arriving …