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 …

immigrants and natives, and start by presenting reduced-form econometric evidence for the hypothesis that immigrants, once they … population. Unobserved moving costs for immigrants are estimated to be only about 37% of this same cost for natives. The findings …

also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …

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 …

also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is …. Immigrants are persistently more mobile than natives and faster at climbing the firm ladder. We uncover a novel, sizable job …