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

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …

Public debate on immigration focuses on its effects on wages and employment, yet the discussion typically fails to … consider the effects of immigration on working conditions that affect workers' health. There is growing evidence that … immigrants are more likely than natives to work in risky jobs, as they are more inclined to take on physically intensive tasks …

the education distribution between immigrants and the native born. Using data for New Zealand, which has an immigration …, overqualified for their occupation. However, once we account for the fact that immigrants are on average more skilled than natives …, we find that immigrants are, in fact, less overeducated than natives. …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish economic expansion and the sharp contraction. During the expansion, 1999 …-2007, the job-finding rate was higher for immigrants than for natives, but both rates converged to a lower level after the Great … high for immigrants than for natives. By using longitudinal social security data, I find that wage cyclicality is higher …