We analyze the impact of economic conditions at arrival on the economic integration of family-sponsored migrants in the …. Migrant and family networks help mitigating the negative labor market effects. Migrants who arrive during a recession take up …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …