-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low …

This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The … effect of concentrations on the immigrant's language skills, as well as the effects on immigrant earnings of destination … language skills and the linguistic concentration. These hypotheses are tested using PUMS data from the 1990 U.S. Census on …

Are there long-term labor consequences in migrating to the US during a recession? For most immigrants, credibly … estimating this effect is difficult because of selective migration. Some immigrants may not move if economic conditions are not … favorable. However, identification is possible for refugees as their arrival dates are exogenously determined through the US …

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 …

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 …

by Immigrants' (SPVA) for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language … mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants'economic performances. The effects are much stronger for immigrants with low …-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …

increasingly important even in less skilled jobs. Immigrants - who often have limited skills in the host country language upon … requirements, little is known about how immigrants' language proficiency is rewarded in the labor market. However, estimating the … causal effect of immigrants' language skills on hiring is challenging due to potential biases caused by omitted variables …

language plays in the labour market performance of immigrants and to better study their career progression relative to the …This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in … with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold. This allows us to assess the role that …

proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that … language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as earnings differ widely across non-white immigrants, according to … results found for other countries, language proficiency seems to be more important for labour market outcomes of UK immigrants …