Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities …

composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the … population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical propositions …, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the impact of …

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

, although the wage catch-up is not complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in … quality of immigrants' labor market skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a … that the variance of immigrant earnings increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …

Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the … Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the point system used by Canada generated, on average, a more skilled …

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of …