declining unemployment are important to identify assimilation effects on immigrant earnings. We show that this is the case for … that local labour market conditions impact the rate of the earnings assimilation. We interpret the effect of unemployment …Labour market outcomes of immigrants and natives are affected differently by macroeconomic conditions. In particular …

unemployment, we find that wage assimilation among lesser-educated immigrants is negligible and that the immigrant-native wage gap … is strongly increasing in unemployment. For highly educated immigrants, rates of wage assimilation during early years in … in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation in …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation … probability, unemployment probability, and hours worked per week). Using the 2006 Australian Census of Population and Housing the …

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …

perform regressions of three pooled cross sections (1986, 1996, 2006) to estimate assimilation and quality of immigrants as … the German Socioeconomic Panel up to the year 2006 in order to investigate the economic performance of immigrants. We … reflected by their earnings. Further we take the heterogeneity of immigrants into account by separating them by country of …

Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and … tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical …

reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have …We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data … assimilation. We show that since the return to destination-specific skills increased during this period because of the very large …

Research on the economic or labor market assimilation of immigrants has to date focused on the degree of improvement in … cohort effects, negative assimilation (a decline in earnings with duration) is found for immigrants in the US from the … transferability of skills. This paper addresses whether positive assimilation will be found if skills are very highly transferable …

There are two complementary models of immigrants' economic and social adjustment - the positive assimilation model of … immigrants from non-English-speaking countries are characterized by positive assimilation. Earnings in the immediate post … Chiswick (1978, 1979), and the negative assimilation model of Chiswick and Miller (2011). The negative assimilation model is …

evaluating the effects of an integration program for immigrants to Finland. The program consists of an individualized sequence of … after May 1997. The results suggest that the program strongly increased the employment and earnings of immigrants and …