Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains …

. The basic register, STATIV, includes demographic, socio-economic and immigrant specific information. In this paper we used … instrumental variable regression to examine the clean impact of citizenship acquisition and the size of the co-immigrant population … impact for a number of immigrant groups. This is particularly the case for non- EU/non-North American immigrants. In terms of …

Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article … first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in … selection. Next, the variation in immigrant characteristics across countries and visa types is discussed. The article then …