immigrant labor supply shock on native competitors. -- labor market effects of immigration ; skill groups ; wage elasticity …

countries have established special visas and entry requirements to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Research supports some of …

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …

In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique …, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation … literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups …

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The … effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … adult male immigrants from non-English speaking countries. Linguistic concentrations reduce the immigrant's own English …

, a finding that has implications for immigrant settlement policies. -- computers ; internet ; immigrants ; language …

of this research is disaggregating the sample into seven distinct immigrant groups (based on admission class) and second … and third-generation Canadians. Our results show that no immigrant group performs as well on literacy and numeracy tests …, our metric for success in the labour market. Of the immigrant subgroups, economic immigrants tend to have the highest test …