We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

Studies in the US have shown that black immigrants have remained at the bottom of the wage ladder and that other groups … of immigrants have overtaken them over time. The goal of this research is to determine whether a specific group of … immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and …

the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting the fact that the initial placement of guest-workers after WWII was … several data sets, we find a small but robust and significant negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language … presence of the effect. Immigrants with high learning costs are inclined to move to ethnic enclaves, so that the share of …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …

of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …

We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using … probabilities of ethnic German immigrants and German natives and the employment probability in jobs that vary by the qualifications …

We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from … the Labour Force Survey between 1993 and 2002. Immigrants who arrived to enter the labour market are distinguished from … lower earnings for non-white immigrants. …