This paper uses a combination of national cultural frameworks and social capital theory to
explain the formation and management of entrepreneurial ventures among immigrant …

The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues As the authors state in Chapter
1,“the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas …

Among the world's 272 million international migrants, more than 25 million are from the
former Soviet Union (FSU), yet there is a paucity of literature available about FSU …

We provide the first large-scale evidence on self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants
who arrived in Europe in 2015 or 2016. Our analysis uses unique datasets from the …

Previous literature on a variety of countries has documented a “healthy immigrant
effect”(HIE). Accordingly, immigrants arriving in the host country are, on average, healthier …

Almost eight million Ukrainians have fled their country to escape the Russian full-scale
invasion. To provide empirical evidence on how beneficiaries of temporary protection who …

This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section
1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a …

Why do high-skilled Canadian immigrants lag behind their US counterparts in labor-market
outcomes, despite Canada's merit-based immigration selection system and more integrative …

Recent scholarship suggests that immigrant selectivity–the degree to which immigrants differ
from non-migrants in their sending countries–can help us understand their labour market …

This study examines the effects of cultural capital on the achievement of Israeli natives and
of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union. We hypothesize that teachers are insensitive to …