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

imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in … and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to … Australia we show that a significant part of the variation in the immigrants' probability to be over-/under-educated in the …

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

imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in … and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to … Australia we show that a significant part of the variation in the immigrants' probability to be over-/under-educated in the …

indicate that the choice of employment is positively related to unobserved determinants of migration. This result implies that … estimating employment choices without controlling for migration status leads to biased estimates. Most rural migrants appear …

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the … using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …

measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …

proportion of immigrants that were already under-utilised (or over-achieving) in their home countries. Overall, the policy … appears to have brought immigrants that reduced the over-under-education of Australia's labour market. …