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 … percent of the variance in log wages for migrants with a given number of years of schooling is due to differences within …

conditional labor earnings at all points in the distribution. This underestimation appears driven in part by potential migrants … placing too much weight on the negative employment experiences of some migrants, and by inaccurate information flows from …

. Limited tracking on ability appears beneficial for migrants' relative achievement, while complete tracking and a large private …

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 …