This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers …

of immigrants. We look at the level of earnings as one of the indicators of their integration process. Additionally, we … to the statistically significant effects of migrant networks on migrants' earnings. …

cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … similar age and education. We find that, on average, these immigrants started with an earnings gap of 40-45% and eliminated … they had smaller initial earnings gaps and faster convergence. Additionally, the most recent cohorts entered the United …

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …