Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …

increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a …We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment … consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives …

increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a …We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment … consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives …

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at … an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an …

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …

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

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their … migrants’ comparing themselves more with the richer natives and less with fellow migrants, then the effort extended to … assimilate will be muted. -- Migrants’ behavior ; The effort to assimilate ; Income gains ; Social proximity ; Interpersonal …

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant … workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …