The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions … social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …

continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this … pushed natives toward more communication-intensive tasks while it has pushed immigrants away from them. …

immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …

immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses … using 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 …

receives support from data on the living arrangements of second-generation immigrants in the US. Both in 1970 and 2000, by … country of origin, the US living arrangements of second-generation immigrants mimic those in Europe across countries …

natives and immigrants in the U.S., focusing on the role of English ability. The results indicate that, during the period 1997 …-2003, immigrants were significantly less likely to have access to or use a computer and the Internet. Moreover, the gap in IT usage … widened during that period. Immigrants (and natives) who live in Spanish-speaking households are less likely than individuals …