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 …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects … of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of these findings based on the sign and significance of the estimates …. This allows us to present quantitative evidence for the relative effectiveness for immigrants of different types of ALMPs …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however …, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs are effective for immigrants. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 …

government funded Public Employment Service through which those eligible would get an establishment plan and a coach. The reform … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the … permit. Outcomes are measured in terms of employment and earnings in 2012 for the treatment group and in 2011 for the …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …

We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant … (decreases) the employment level, if the union represents (does not represent) migrant workers. -- migration ; welfare state …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the …It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …