. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially …-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …, black immigrants do not obtain wage assimilation equal to native-born non-Hispanic white male workers. …

benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …

paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation challenges when migrations are temporary. As in an overwhelming share of the … problem becomes inherently dynamic and requires a more structural approach to estimation, which we briefly discuss. …

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures …

across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of wage assimilation over time. Wage assimilation is affected by year of … entry, immigrant skill, ethnicity, and gender. Policies that facilitate assimilation of immigrant workers provide support …