Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections …. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …

urbanised areas. Immigrants have high well-being outcomes on average but suffer an initial shortfall in employment and wages … further adjustments to the system to enhance its well-being benefits for both the NZ-born and immigrants. This Working Paper …

use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia's immigrants come from, this evidence … capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a …

use in Australia is much higher than in most of the countries that Australia’s immigrants come from, this evidence … capital skills shows that educational attainment and destination language skills are complements to computer use. The use of a …

experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … allocated to an unfamiliar language environment. The differences are driven by growth rather than gestation and manifest in a 2 ….9 percentage point difference in low birth weight incidence. We find substantial dose-response relationships in terms of language …

to positions with fewer immigrants. We also found that immigrant presence in the formal sector potentially pushed wages … downwards, but the presence of immigrants in the informal sector offsets the substitution effects. Overall, the study highlights … of immigrants and native workers …

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …

This paper analyzes the Hebrew language proficiency, probability of employment, and labor market earnings of immigrants … features of the analysis include the study of long-duration immigrants (3 to 20 years), and analyses for: males and females …, primary reasons for immigration, the subsidized intensive Hebrew language training program (ulpan), Ethiopian Jews, and Jewish …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …

-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …