As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …

following arrival, wages of highly skilled immigrants grow at 8% a year. Rising prices of skills, occupational transitions …, the average wages of immigrants approach but do not converge to the wages of comparable natives. The main reason for that …This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital …

immigrants, have a significant negative impact on the wages of low-skilled natives. This suggests that immigrants become closer …Previous research has reached mixed conclusions about the effect of higher levels of immigration on the wages of … increase in the fraction of foreign-born workers tends to lower the wages of natives in blue collar occupations - particularly …

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse what are the … consequences of such attitudes on immigrants' welfare. A well educated immigrant from a non developed country who lives in a … would reduce the wage gap to well-educated immigrants from developed countries by 70%. We interpret this effect as evidence …

union and non-union workers, union representation substantially improves the pay and benefits received by immigrants. …

matching for immigrants has been conducted prior to their leaving the home country using home country wages as the outcome …Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrantsâ …

This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … in proportion of immigrant workers in different occupations on the wage levels of both natives and immigrants are … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative …