consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the … use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

Switzerland has experienced a substantial influx of immigrants over the last 50 years after World War II, which has led … labour market performance of immigrants. Two main results emerge from our study. First, as a result of the shortcomings of … the Swiss migration policy, immigrants tend to have a negative impact on the Swiss economy. Second, the analysis of the …

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment …, the pattern of negative assimilation is observed. -- immigrants ; assimilation ; earnings ; hours worked ; employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation …

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent … qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the policy change led to a large inflow of young immigrants with the …/substitutability between same-language immigrants and natives with different levels of labor market experience. …