of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational … with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with Dutch … evidence for the positive effect of co-ethnic contact on employment status. …

proficiency on adult foreign-born men's earnings, employment and occupational status. On average, social contacts and a good …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …-ethnic contact on employment status. To deal with the endogeneity between Dutch language ability and earnings, an interaction term …

in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …

immigrants in production, gain in terms of both wages and employment. The effects on unskilled native workers, who compete with …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …

(supply-driven) independent skilled migrants at the same time that (demand-driven) employer-sponsored migration was expanded …. We find that this combination of policy adjustments substantively improved short-term employment outcomes amongst skilled … migrants six months after taking up permanent residency. …

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … costs, we find evidence that the selection and sorting of migrants by skills is driven by different returns in countries of …