This paper exploits a quasi-experiment to shed light on whether the wage penalty experienced by migrants reflects poor … possibility for migrants to undertake an official assessment of their foreign qualifications, and remove the uncertainty … educated abroad. The assessment's effect weakens over time, as employers observe migrants' productivity. The effect of where …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In … particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of … stringent immigration policies and large volumes of undocumented immigration. We test this hypothesis using US data from the 7th …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 …) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …

This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy … composition of migrants. The two results capture different aspects of remittance behaviour. …