This paper compares migration profiles between low and high levels of education using French data. It is well known that most migrants are individuals with a high level of education ; nevertheless, we also observe geographical movements by less educated people in the first years of their...

This paper deals with the impact of migration on wages. We introduce a spatial dimension into the job search framework, so that the agent faces neither the same job offer distribution nor the same search costs when looking for a job inside his local labor market. This is in comparison to the...

L'objectif de ce papier est d'évaluer l'impact de la pénibilité du travail sur l'état de santé des travailleurs de façon générale, et plus particulièrement des travailleurs immigrés. Nous utilisons les données de l'Enquête Santé 2002‐2003 de l'INSEE et nous construisons un...

In this paper, we bring to light the link between immigration in France and the appeal to its welfare system: familial assistance, retirement, health, housing assistance, unemployment benefits and RMI (the French Minimum Guaranteed Income). Our results show that when we control for differences...