Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far … below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the … examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German …

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. Our context is … the migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. This setting presents unique institutional features …—including the lack of barriers posed by migration regulations—and rich data availability. Differential sorting across firms and …

include recently arrived refugees (the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Sample of Refugees) and other immigrants (the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample …In the last years, the labor market integration of immigrant women has received much attention in the migration … literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

This paper considers the labor market assimilation of immigrants in terms of earnings and employment (employment … country (ESDC). Among men in general, 'negative assimilation' is found for immigrants from the ESDC, and positive assimilation … male counterparts. This may reflect the greater tendency for female immigrants to be tied movers. Among never married …

-employment rates observed for some groups with a long established history of migration to the UK (especially men born in Pakistan) and …-economic characteristics, it is found that migration-related influences, such as English language proficiency and period of arrival in the UK …

category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

We analyze the impact of job entry restrictions on the economic integration of recent ethnic German immigrants, using … probabilities of ethnic German immigrants and German natives and the employment probability in jobs that vary by the qualifications …