This paper uses census data from 1980 to 2006 to study the new European emigration to the US. This emigration is about a small but rising number of individuals. Yet since 1990, emigrants are increasingly selected from the upper tail quality distribution of their source country workforce in terms...

Des inquiétudes s’expriment fréquemment en Europe quant au risque d’une “fuite des cerveaux” vers l’étranger, en particulier vers les États-Unis. Les données des recensements américains de 1980 à 2006 nous permettent d’observer le phénomène, en distinguant les cohortes...

En France, entre 1994 et 2007, la dispersion des salaires horaires a globalement diminué. La hausse plus rapide du SMIC que du salaire médian a produit un tassement du bas de l’échelle des salaires, qui a plus que compensé l’augmentation modérée des écarts observée dans le même...

This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...

We identify the impact of immigrants on income and productivity of the oecd countries using the remarkable changes from 1960 to 2005 in the cross-sectional distribution of the ratio of immigrants over natives. Our approach is based on the aggregate production function that we combine with panel...