The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …

This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for … immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large … nationally representative dataset. We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to …

education affect earnings in the labour market. We account for differences in innate ability by aggregating subjective responses …

monolingual English speakers, but the earnings differential varies sharply by the language spoken. Those who speak Native American … languages, Pennsylvania Dutch and Yiddish have very low earnings, likely because they live in isolated geographic or cultural … same, have statistically significant seven percent lower earnings. …

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

This paper investigates whether returns to schooling differ according to the choice of the measure of earnings and the … the Heckman method, we show that converting earnings to common measures and pooling respondents produces different …

career success as denoted by occupational status, linked to earnings. This is the first application of this analysis to New … Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the … native-born populations and provide evidence on the mediating effect of occupational attainment on earnings. Our analyses …

-related human capital. (1) A general importance is demonstrated in the empirical evidence on earnings and employment effects of …

an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage points. We find empirical support for differing earnings opportunities as a … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self …