This paper explores the impact of Spanish language proficiency on immigrant earnings in Spain using an instrumental …

This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for … natives and that there is no return to pre-immigration work experience, suggesting imperfect transferability of human capital …

qualifications. This gap is strongly driven by age at immigration, with immigration age and education revealing a nonlinear …

-educated immigrants are a highly heterogeneous group, and the key factor differentiating their post-immigration earnings from the earnings … experience before immigration added only a small or no earnings gain after immigration for Canadian-educated immigrants. …. This study uses large national longitudinal datasets to examine cross-cohort trends and within-cohort changes in earnings …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …

study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …

Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … in scientific and engineering fields. By raising the demand for housing, immigration also spurs residential investment …