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 …

cause these potential differences. In a first step, we evaluate program effects separately for immigrants and natives using …

immigrant welfare recipients. In particular, we investigate whether program effects differ between immigrants and natives and … effects are more adverse for natives, but the program does not help otherwise identical immigrants to leave the welfare system … immigrants. …

In light of the importance of immigrants labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the … country immigrants), genders and receiving EU regions. Potential explanations for these differences, such as the occupational … composition of immigrants are discussed. Furthermore, predictions of the family investment hypothesis in terms of the human …

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 …

This paper analyses the intergenerational income mobility for natives and immigrants in Switzerland. An IV approach … subgroups of the Swiss population shows strong differences between Swiss and immigrants. Compared to natives, immigrants are … for natives is found to be similar for all income quantiles. Among immigrants, mobility is higher at the lower as well as …

immigrants to the United States by using the pooled files of the American Community Survey (2005-09). We consider the colonial … immigrants from countries with a high concentration of Protestant missionaries tend to exhibit higher levels of English …

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self …-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many … upward economic mobility among low-skilled immigrants. More broadly prioritizing high-skilled immigrants may prove to be more …