Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …

Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in …

primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … show that returns to human capital are considerably lower for immigrants as compared to natives and that there is no return … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression …

determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007 …, the paper examines returns to human capital of immigrants, distinguishing between human capital accumulated in their home … transferability of the latter. The only exception occurs in the case of immigrants from developed countries and immigrants who have …

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …

Using a rich German panel data set, I estimate wage assimilation patterns for immigrants in Germany. This study … immigrant's perspective. Comparisons with similar natives reveal that immigrants' experience earnings profiles are flatter on … differences between natives and immigrants remain. They are particularly noticeable for highly skilled immigrants, the group …

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many … target selection of immigrants. …

captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …

Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in …