(positive selection) and more-educated migrants are more likely to settle in destination countries with high rewards to skill … simple model of income maximization can account for both phenomena. Results on selection show that migrants for a source …-destination pair are more educated relative to non-migrants the larger is the absolute skill-related difference in earnings between the …

assimilation effect that suggests that immigrants make up for relatively low entry wages, although the wage catch-up is not …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

similarity of the pattern of segmentation across 66 different countries. The paper goes on to consider how unemployment might be … understood in a labor market segmentation framework. Existing models of unemployment in a dual labor market suggest that … unemployment should be concentrated among those who are ultimately employed in high wage jobs. In fact, unemployment seems to be …

without a college education. Though wages and participation have fallen in tandem for this population, we argue that the …

wages or union contracts mandate that relatively high wages have to be paid to these workers. I report some empirical …

explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by … comparing changes in wages and employment rates over the 1980s for different age and education groups in the United States …

reform paid their workers high wages, and raised the premium paid to workers in states along the U.S. border. These changes …