an ethnic-community wide phenomena where established migrants strategically provide support to newcomers. The incentive … to provide support is associated with positive externalities which new waves of migrants might have on migrants already … may arise. These scenarios provide a possible explanation of why different groups of migrants show different migration …

an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new … workers: migrants are heavily concentrated in agglomerations and work in different jobs than natives do. This gives an … levels and two types of jobs for migrants and natives. Firms differ in the ability to employ migrants which gives rise to …

Optimal integration policies should take the language skills of arriving migrants into account. However, little is … worse language skills. And by linguistic distance, indicating that migrants react to distance by increasing learning effort … known about the determinants of these skills, because most survey-based studies cannot distinguish between language learning …

This paper uses Danish full population register data from 1995 to 2001 to analyze self-selection of migrants from … Denmark. We find that Danish emigrants are more educated and have higher pre-emigration earnings than non-migrants. The … of non-migrants. Furthermore, we also find positive self-selection in terms of residuals from earnings regressions. These …

predicted earnings. High-skilled migrants select to destinations as predicted by Borjas' (1987) model of migration choices …. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected …, relative to non-migrants. For our analysis, we use a survey of university graduates, including detailed information on …