We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their … aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions … are subject to wedges which distort their allocation across occupations. We estimate the model to match salient features …

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their … higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services. -- foreign experts ; export ; immigrants ; productivity …

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … ; wages ; occupations ; production function ; matched employer-employee data …

Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations …

against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (2014) and address firm fixed effects and … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …

reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling …