percent of the variance in log wages for migrants with a given number of years of schooling is due to differences within …Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality … analyze the overlap in the wage distribution of low- and high-educated recent migrants from different origins after …

occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …

occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the …

occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …

occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …