Across the subjects of economics, sociology and demography, much has been written about the difficulties faced by … immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this …

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and …

. Re-migration is selective for both non-western and western immigrants, insofar as the probability of re-migration …Non-western immigrants in Norway are shown to rely heavily on welfare transfers for several years after immigration …. While refugee immigrants assimilate slightly out of welfare, other non-western immigrants assimilate rapidly into welfare …

While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their …

The paper analyses the impact of regional own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants. It solves … the endogeneity of immigrants' location choices by exploiting the fact that guest-workers in Germany after WWII were … initially placed by firms and labor agencies. We find a robust negative effect of ethnic concentration on immigrants' language …

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and … immigrants is analyzed using data from the 2000 U.S. Census, the German Socio-Economic Panel, and the National Immigrant Survey … of Spain. Across countries, linguistic distance is negatively correlated with reported language skills of immigrants …

immigration; should immigrants preserve their traditions and culture while living in the host country (integration … identify and analyse the characteristics of those people in Western countries who think that immigrants should assimilate … culturally and how they differ from those who think that immigrants should preserve a separate cultural existence? By doing so …

This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in … intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual taxation records. The 2007 Swedish Register Data includes information on …-sex-schooling-place of birth cohorts looking specifically at non-economic (family reunion and refugee intake) immigrants from Iran, Iraq …

Compared to other immigrants to the United States, recent Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union have achieved … earnings of other immigrants. This pattern is seen in the most recent data, the American Community Survey, 2005 to 2009, which … is that the Russian Jewish immigrants from the late 19th and early 20th centuries (1881 to 1920's) also experienced high …

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. …