The paper studies the demand for foreign university graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile highly skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin,...

This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor market outcomes and healthcare utilization. The evidence is based on data for 1999 from the first wave of the Swiss Household Panel. In order to control for confounding...

Die übliche Schätzfunktion zur Bestimmung der relativen Lohndifferenz mittels Dummyvariable in einer log-linearen Regressionsfunktion ist inkonsistent, falls gruppenspezifische Heteroskedastie vorliegt. Die Richtung und Größenordnung der Verzerrung wird abgeleitet. Ein Fallbeispiel zur...