We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries … are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …

nationality and policies affording migrants legal protection from discrimination are robust determinants of migration flows …. Not all migrant integration policies, however, have such positive effect. Only policies favoring migrants' access to …

migrants arrive. Thus, it is increasingly important to consider what role differences in culture and language play in migration … decisions. Recent work shows that culture and language may explain migration patterns to developed countries even better than … in culture and language may create barriers that prevent the full realization of the potential economic gains from …

pays particular attention to involuntary migrants who fled conflict in their home regions beginning in the 1970s. The paper …

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 …

citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non …Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical … Effect framework, showing that migrants with the lowest propensity to naturalize would benefit the most if they did. This …

This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the … linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with … immigrants face significant initial disadvantages of linguistic origin that exceed existing differentials across wage …

. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The … is associated with a higher payoff to schooling among immigrants in the US labor market. This higher payoff is associated … quality on the immigrant selection process, rather than the quality of immigrants' schooling per se, that is the major driver …