We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying … language proficiency and economic outcomes has been on the relation between earnings and indicators for language proficiency … language and job level. A lack of language skills may induce the migrant to work in jobs of a lower level leading to lower job …

national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less … skillednatives are a little adverselyaffected by immigrants. …

immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex!ert a …

. We utilize a unique micro data set of place-to-place migrants across neighborhoods in the urban agglomerations of …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch. Even second generation … immigrants never fully catch up. Caribbean immigrants, who share a colonial history with the Dutch, assimilate relatively quick …

’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 … greater in Europe than in the United States. Furthermore, the results are sensitive to the choice of the study design. For …

-skilled migrants arriving from specific countries in certain years. Utilizing comprehensive tax and population data, we document …

immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for … difference-in-differences setup, we find that the number of migrants in the income range closely above the threshold more than … that the preferential tax scheme is highly effective in attracting more skilled migrants. …

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high …

voting behavior and how this is affected by host countries. Using unique micro-data on Chilean expatriates living in Europe … exploit local transitory shocks to the cost of voting given by the rainfall on the day of the election. We find that migrants … welcoming to migrants. This suggests that integration into their local environment seems to play an important role on shaping …