Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far … below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the … examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German …

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 …

countries to additionally include informal employment (chapter 3) as well as the relation between foreign direct investment …, trade, and informal employment as illustrated by the maquiladora industry in Mexico (chapter 4), the interaction between …

and political participation. However, despite its vital importance, many immigrants never reach adequate proficiency in … designing measures to improve language acquisition. Empirical evidence shows that immigrants differ in their ability to learn …

We use data on immigrants who live in the United States to study the effects of exposure to hyperinflation on …

immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self …This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups albeit at a decreasing rate. Among …

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 …

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 …

proficiency among immigrants. A model of immigrant language proficiency is augmented to include dynamics among family members. It … is tested using data on a sample of recent immigrants. Children are shown to have a negative effect on their mother …