society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between 2004 and 2011, we examine the relationship between immigration … that migrants'social capital has an impact on receiving communities. Therefore immigrants' social capital (such as having …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the …

and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … refugees, family-immigrants and immigrants with unspecified reason for immigration, while education- and labor-immigrants and …

A snapshot at figures of immigration (Aliyah) to the Land of Israel (Palestine) and to the State of Israel reveals the … following: between 1882-1947, in successive waves of immigration, some 543,000 Jews immigrated to Palestine, joining the 24 … population was about 24 percent, and between 1948-1952, mass immigration of 711,000 supplemented a population of 630 …

local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …

investigate an household optimal number of migrants this paper introduces a Three Step procedure to solve simultaneously for the … endogeneity of network size and possible selection of migrants. The analysis confirms the inverted U-shaped relation between …