...Stelios Roupakias Purpose This paper evaluates the economic integration of immigrant groups in Greece. Design/methodology/approach We employ microdata from the 2001 and 2011 decennial Censuses, combined with aggregate data from the 2006 Structure of Earnings Survey. We estimate probit...

... may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Diaspora Italy Immigration Crisis Pull factors Ethnic network Location patterns South Asians The spread of international migration is one of the most salient social and political issues in a growing number...

...Damiano Pregaldini; Uschi Backes-Gellner Purpose Our study explores the effects of immigration on the employment of native middle-skilled workers, focusing on how this effect varies with the specificity of their occupational skill bundles. Design/methodology/approach Exploiting the 2002...

... Asian immigrants' educational attainment and professional abilities when arriving in the United States have evolved over the past 4 decades and draws inferences on the impact of the US employment based visa policies. Using data from the 1980, 1990 and 2000 census and American Community Survey...

...Anna Rosso Purpose The paper aims at examining wage developments among Eastern European immigrants vs UK natives before and after the 2004 enlargement by measuring the extent to which inter-group wage differentials are explainable by these groups' changing attributes or by differences in returns...

...Seong Hee Kim Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether natives’ attitudes toward immigration is associated with an influx of high- and low-skilled immigrants. The current research focuses on selected 20 OECD countries as destination countries. Design/methodology/approach...

...Raquel Sebastian; Magdalena Ulceluse The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of an increase in the relative supply of immigrants on natives’ task reallocation, with a focus on Germany. Specifically, it investigates whether natives, as a response to increased immigration, re...

... to the human capital effect, for both migrants and locals in the Netherlands. The purpose of this paper is to examine two sources of wage differential in the local labour market, namely: individual cultural capital (approximated by immigrant background), which affects schooling results; and the local cultural...

...Kerstin Bruckmeier; Jürgen Wiemers Purpose International empirical evidence suggests that immigrants have a significantly higher risk than their native counterparts of being on welfare due to their observed characteristics. Nevertheless, it remains unclear if immigrants are also more prone to take...

... Poverty Regional development Skilled workers Public policy Labour market Migrant workers Immigration Skills shortages Research on skilled emigration and development is in crisis. Economists have studied the development effects of skilled emigration for many years within a single paradigm...

...Miao Chi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether immigrants in the USA receive an earnings premium associated with marrying a native. Design/methodology/approach – The raw premium revealed by the 2000 US Census data is suspect due to possible endogeneity and selection...

...Professor John Burgess and Professor Julia Connell; Begoña Cueto; Vanesa Rodríguez Álvarez Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine immigrant self-employment in Spain. The study aims to determine the likelihood of immigrants being self-employed, the differences between Spaniards...

... and effects of highly qualified researchers academic mobility from Russia to EU countries. Expatriates Data analysis Immigration Eastern Europe J240 O180 O470 R110 The cross-border mobility of academics, or academic mobility, is a normal process in a globalizing world where scientific...

... urbanisation matters more as a pull factor than improvements in GDP per capita. The interpretation of these results may be linked with the existence of opportunities arising in cities. Besides, immigrants not only look for monetary outcomes from migrating, but also non-economic territorial features...

...Dr Michael Beenstock, Professor Raul Ramos and Professor Jordi Suriñach; Michael Beenstock; Daniel Felsenstein; Ziv Rubin Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of immigration from European Neighborhood (EN) and new member states to the EU core countries over...

... (MW), union power and tax wedge on migration flows. The authors allow for interactions of these institutions with migration entry laws, as both affect equilibrium wages and employment in destination countries, influencing mobility decisions of immigrants. Design/methodology/approach...

...Dr Raul Eamets and Dr Krista Jaakson; Yuval Arbel; Yossef Tobol; Erez Siniver Purpose – Previous studies of immigrant populations suggest that ceteris paribus an immigrant's level of income is strongly and positively correlated with his proficiency in the local language. The purpose of this paper...

...Dr Raul Eamets and Dr Krista Jaakson; Antonio Caparrós Ruiz Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to approach a new aspect of the assimilation of immigrants in Spain. In particular, it is analyzed the effect of the type of contract on immigrant wages. The data used in this analysis come from...

...Luis Diaz-Serrano Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to seek test for the precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives, which implies that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. Design/methodology/approach – To test this hypothesis...

...Tanyamat SrungBoonmee Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess how wages of US native workers with various educational backgrounds are affected by immigration. Design/methodology/approach This paper estimates the responses of these workers’ wages to the concentration of immigrants...