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. …

Employing data on US immigrants and trade with 59 home countries for the years 1996-2001, we compare the extent to … which refugee and non-refugee immigrants affect US trade with their home countries and provide the first evidence of …-refugee immigrants to offset the trade-inhibiting influence of cultural distance. Our results show that while immigrants, in general …

This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the principal component …

the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed … their occupation to one associated with higher skills and better pay, when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor …

immigrants from the 'recruitment countries' of south and southeast Europe, who arrived in Germany mainly in the 1970s to fill … entrepreneurs. Firms owned exclusively by immigrants tend to be smaller and have higher exit rates. After controlling for resources …

Turkish immigrants in the Netherlands. For two sets of ethnic and life-domain reference groups, results are obtained that … immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with Dutch natives is positively correlated to life satisfaction … Turkish immigrants. Perceived importance of income comparison with relatives in the Netherlands is positively correlated to …

This paper assesses how new immigrants to Spain fare in the country's labor market, evaluating the conditions under … Labor Force Survey data from 2000 through 2011, we find that immigrants who arrived before the 2008 recession had little … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many …

influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …

Probit analysis to a sample of over 37,900 employed males. We focus on the occupational attainment of immigrants and the …