high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …

differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …

Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from … escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these widening gaps are largely explained by individual's endowments, mostly …

captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …

Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved … earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … is that the Russian Jewish immigrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881 to 1920's) also experienced high …

This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have … immigrants have earned more than the older ones since 1980 …

Starting in the 1980s, the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers partly due to the … influx of Latin American immigrants in the past few decades. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less … unskilled workers in the U.S. On the other hand, some recent studies claim that low-skilled immigrants may complement relatively …

. Discrimination exhibits little geographical dispersion, but two digit industry explains roughly half of the cross-firm variation in … quintile of racial discrimination responsible for nearly half of lost contacts to Black applicants in the experiment … findings establish that systemic illegal discrimination is concentrated among a select set of large employers, many of which …