proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. On average, social contacts and a good …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …

Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections … migrants that were exogenously allocated to their first place of residence by German authorities. The empirical results reveal …

in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …

immigrants in production, gain in terms of both wages and employment. The effects on unskilled native workers, who compete with …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper … using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits … which are aimed to support non-employed households. The rise in these outcomes is particularly important for EU migrants. EU …

U.S. employers can check whether the workers they hire are legally eligible for employment using E-Verify, a free … provide the first examination of whether increases in employer enrollment in the E-Verify system affect employment and …