international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and undereducation to favorable selection in immigration. Comparisons …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … immigration gains are greater from immigrating to United States. (5) The estimated coefficients determining migration flows to … composition of employment migrants. There is no evidence that the differences in the selection mechanism used to screen employment …

out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration … wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the … immigration. An IV strategy, which deals with the endogeneity of immigration by exploiting a large influx of Central American …

-educated U.S. workers fell. Some believe that recent shifts in immigration may be partly responsible for the bad fortunes of … skilled natives. OLS estimates using Census data are consistent with this as they show that wages and employment of natives … and earlier Latin Americans are positively related to recent Latin American immigration. However, these estimates are …

STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … for natives. We examine effects of the policy on STEM degree completion, STEM occupational choice, and employment rates …

Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …