We estimate the dual effects of immigration and obesity on labor market outcomes in the UK using the British Household … Panel Survey. We find support for the "healthy immigrant hypothesis" and evidence that immigrants’ weights increase with … time in the UK. While overweight and obese men enjoy a wage premium, overweight and obese immigrant men face a wage penalty …

Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant …

countries have established special visas and entry requirements to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Research supports some of …

The quality dimension of immigrant human capital has received little attention in the economic assimilation literature … virtually eliminates native-immigrant gaps in returns to schooling and the incidence of over-education. The quality of human …

unique representative German survey, we find that adaptation to the host country closes the existing immigrant-native gap in …

This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia … mobility is relatively high in Estonia both for natives and children of foreign-born, the native-immigrant earnings gap has not …