This dissertation was prepared as a collection of 4 research articles in the field of international trade with a focus … on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … migration frictions. Chapter 3 asks how the welfare quantification of trade liberalization changes if one allows workers to be …

immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … entrepreneurs. Firms owned exclusively by immigrants tend to be smaller and have higher exit rates. After controlling for resources …

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

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex- Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …

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

panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of …

This paper extends the analysis of the acquisition of destination language proficiency among immigrants by explicitly … duration of residence, the higher the level of education, and for immigrants not from Asia. Large positive correlations in the …

This paper is concerned with the location of immigrants in the United States, as reported in the 1990 Census. Where … they settle has implications for the economic, social and political impact of immigrants. Immigrants are highly …). The shift away from the east coast metropolitan areas to California reflects the change in the origins of immigrants from …

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of Soviet Jewish immigrants to … the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent finding is that recently arrived Soviet Jewish immigrants have lower levels of … English proficiency and earnings than other immigrants, other variables being the same. However, they have a steeper …

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … capital theory, we derive a non-linear model that imposes restrictions across the earning equations of natives and immigrants …. The two earning functions are estimated jointly, using repeated cross section data. Using data on immigrants from the …