The results of three surveys of freshman economics students (2008-2010) at the Waikato Management School, New Zealand, suggest that incoming students have significant levels of prior economics knowledge. Given this head start in knowledge, we have expanded our freshman lecture material with more...

For at least half a century, and building on observations first made a century earlier, the gravity model has been the most commonly‐used paradigm for understanding gross migration flows between regions. This model owes its success to, firstly, its intuitive consistency with migration...

Chapter 1. Earnings and Employment in Foreign-owned Firms -- Chapter 2. Widening and Deepening Human Capital -- Chapter 3. Foreign vs. German wage differentials in Germany: Does the home country matter -- Chapter 4. Bilingualism in the Labour Market -- Chapter 5. The Contrasting Importance of...