occupational choice for the children of immigrants as well as for the natives. Our findings are surprisingly similar for both … natives and immigrants. For both Germans and immigrants, we find that gender significantly and differentially affects … when their father is in the white collar or professional category. In stark contrast, the immigrants? occupational choice …

do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … natives, and do they harm or improve the labour market situation of natives; does the presence of immigrants alter the … has not taken place to a full extent. Overall, immigrants hardly affect the wages and employment levels of natives, and …

While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving … immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With … assimilation pattern for low- versus high-skilled immigrants in Spain: our key finding is that having a high-school degree does not …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

compositions. Today, the descendants of these immigrants live and work in their parents' destination countries. This paper presents … and discusses comparative evidence on the performance of first- and second-generation immigrants in these countries in …

In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German ….40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than typically found for the U.S. and imply higher mobility in … Germany than in the U.S. However, as in the U.S., I find greater mobility among German natives than among immigrants. Moreover …

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …

the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants … arriving from non-western countries. Furthermore, immigrants were settling in larger cities as opposed to smaller towns as was … the case before. Interestingly, the employment integration of immigrants has declined gradually, and in 2006 the …