of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants are much more likely to emigrate than political ones. …

Belgium, especially as immigrants represent 14 % of the resident population, one of the largest proportions in the EU. While … the employment rate of European immigrants is close to that for persons born in Belgium, the figure for immigrants from … immigrants still have a relatively low employment rate raises a number of other questions concerning, among others, the …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component …

geographical mobility of immigrants in Spain and, in particular, if the expected wage gain exerts a positive influence on the …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and …

different generations of European immigrants to the US. The main result is that persistence differs greatly across cultural …, the results obtained studying higher generation immigrants differ greatly from those obtained limiting the analysis to the …

Immigrants seeking health care, especially those without some kind of public or private insurance, highlight the … paper draws on a new study of those consequences for immigrants and focuses on efforts by one state to increase access. Such …