"Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in addition, also considers better measures of welfare or well-being, offers a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules, regulations and...

The basic message of this book is that the labor market can be usefully interpreted as a confrontation of workers who have heterogeneous capabilities and tastes with jobs that are heterogeneous in the potential productivity of given individual capability endowments. On the demand side the model...

1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Problem -- 1.2 Some Facts -- 1.3 Different Jobs, Different People -- 1.4 Related Approaches -- 1.5 Human Capital Theory -- 1.6 Capabilities -- 1.7 Outline of the Book -- 2 Individual Labor Supply -- 2.1 The Basic Model -- 2.2 Occupational Careers -- 2.3 Capability...

Using unique administrative individual data, this paper examines ethnic differences in degree performance in Dutch colleges and universities. The paper estimates parametric duration models and accounts for unobserved heterogeneity to assess the sources of ethnic disparities. The analysis shows...