Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

wages to reflect this. Formal analysis supports the intuition. We use the dispersion of exam grades within a field of … education as an indicator of the heterogeneity that employers face. We find solid evidence that starting wages are lower if the … variance of exam grades is higher and that starting wages are lower if the skew is higher: employers shift quality risk to new …

modelling and then combine a sample of Dutch migrants in New Zealand with a representative sample of Dutch in The Netherlands to …

Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …

finds supportive evidence: wages rise with occupational earnings variance and decrease with skewness. In order to identify …

higher education graduates. On average, accepted wages are almost 8% higher than reservation wages, but there is no fixed …

estimated on market data: higher wage risk for educational groups is associated with higher mean wages. With observations on …

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …

make it easier for them to switch employers than for the part-time educated auditors. The predictions on tenure and wages …