from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …

2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …

, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes … have high rates of employment, compared with Ecuadorans. However, their employment is of much lower quality, characterized … downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans …

to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations … relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …