Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections … migrants that were exogenously allocated to their first place of residence by German authorities. The empirical results reveal …

during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the … employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV …

individuals in Aotearoa New Zealand is associated with birthplace and, for migrants, years since migration. We also consider the … shows that, as expected, migrants have little local social capital upon arrival. However, differences between their social …. When the migrant share in a region is larger than the national average, migrants invest less in bridging social capital …

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could …

cohorts of Mexicans and Central Americans by comparing their earnings and employment probability to those of natives with … States without an employment rate disadvantage, and they surpassed natives within 10 years. We also find that Mexicans and …

employment or to carry out an education. The effect of relocation as the ease of access varies, however, according to the … immigrants' reason for immigration. Immigrants who remain outside of employment and/or education is mostly to be found among … employment and/or education, the education- and labor-immigrants and Nordic immigrants show higher tendency to maintain such …

employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a spatial approach. A … unique and manually collected data for 156 statistical regions based on the definition of the German Federal Employment … employment rate, and this negative effect is substantially larger than those reported in previous studies on the employment …