We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …

find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …. Immigrants are less likely than natives to have employees in their firms but after controlling for firm characteristics we find …

international (and internal) migrants, both in terms of the ease of obtaining proficiency in the destination language and access to … linguistic enclaves, (2) the determinants of destination language proficiency among international migrants, based on a model (the … destination language skills, and Economic incentives for acquiring this proficiency, (3) the consequences for immigrants of …

effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female … immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived immigrants … and overeducation in the female labour market. Established immigrants were found to enjoy a wage premia, particularly …

-education, but also one of the few to study the moderating roles of gender and education for detailed categories of immigrants. With … particularly critical among higher-educated immigrants. Gender-based differences in immigrants' penalties, in contrast, are found … immigrants born in developing countries to be over-educated and that citizenship acquisition is also associated with …

destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor …This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of … market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …

In light of the importance of immigrants' labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the … - distinguishing between immigrants born within and outside the EU - based on data drawn from the European Labour Force Survey. The …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point … system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages in a timely manner nor prevent poor labor market outcomes for immigrants …