Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using … different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the … the skills spectrum are not affected by the presence of immigrants as well. …

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives’ employment in Portugal. Using … different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are ‘complements’ at most occupation levels, in the … sense that both types are hired when the number of immigrants is increasing. Controlling for different skill-level groups as …

Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants' earnings in the Portuguese labor …

Using matched employer-employee data, we identify the determinants of immigrants’ earnings in the Portuguese labor …

There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … immigrants may provide “complementary†skills, which can raise the productivity of other workers. If the substitution argument …

labour market does not provide as many good opportunities to immigrants than to native born. Indeed, previous studies have … found that not only do new immigrants in Canada earn less than native-born workers, but this entry-earning disadvantage has … rates. Since Canada has a point system that targets skilled immigrants to reduce the labor shortages in specific markets, it …

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 …

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 …

immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than native-born workers--and vice versa. Studies indicate that a higher … minimum wage does not hurt immigrants, but there is no consensus on whether immigrants benefit at the expense of natives …. Studies also reach disparate conclusions on whether higher minimum wages attract or repel immigrants. …

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study shows that immigrants living in segregated … areas where most neighbors are immigrants from the same country of origin as the surveyed person and segregated areas where … most neighbors are immigrants from other countries of origin. The results suggest that housing discrimination rather than …