I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

significantly increases their chances of having a formal-sector job and a permanent employment contract. We also find suggestive …

Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … future migrants.In a decision model with imperfect signalling we show that migrants with access to a better network are more … empirically using data on recent Mexican migrants to the US, and exploit the geographic diffusion of Mexicans since the 1980s as …

of an immigrant ethnic enclave. Immigrant health is poorest for refugees and best for independent (economic) migrants … health status among family and especially independent migrants, as well as a tendency toward "regression to the mean" with …

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could …