European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly … after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the … majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. …

earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and non-target migrants. If … migrants are target migrants, we show that in order to neutralize the effect of a tax on their earnings, Qatar needs to extend … the length of time migrants are allowed to stay. Such a scheme can work even when the migrants experience utility loss …

Anti-immigrant sentiment is frequently motivated by the idea that migrants are a threat to the host country’s culture … (Rapoport et al., 2020). We contribute to the discussion by investigating whether migrants adapt their social preferences (SPs … migrants’ preferences strongly correlate with their host population’s SPs and provide some evidence of a causal relationship …

migrants from low‐income source countries had declining employment rates and increasing disability program participation over … the lifecycle. Refugees and family migrants assimilated during the initial period upon arrival, but labor market … convergence halted after a decade and was accompanied by rising social insurance rates. For the children of labor migrants of the …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …

strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …

. Moreover, migrants might be favourably (self-)selected if the migration costs tend to decline with the skill level of migrants …This paper reconsiders the (self-)selection of international migrants. In an extended Roy-model we analyse the factors … which affect the selection bias of migrants. In particular, we find that migrants need not necessarily be (un …