micro-data for France, Germany, the UK and the US, we study their decisions to migrate to one of the four countries using a … institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … Multinomial Choice framework. Our estimates confirm a number of conventional results such as positive effects of wages and …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …

sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of … 1976. I find that regional wages decline between 1962 and 1968, before returning to their pre-shock level 15 years after …. While regional wages recovered, this particular supply shock had persistent distributional effects. By increasing the …

This study replicates and challenges the finding of zero wage returns to compulsory schooling in Germany by Pischke and … details. These findings render the conclusion that compulsory schooling in Germany yields no wage returns at a minimum …

study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and …

Germany when a unit of earnings from Germany allows for larger consumption at home settle for lower entry wages, but …We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter …

Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …

Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education …, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis focuses on Finnish citizens satisfying three criteria: they were between 25 … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …