Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

The Handbook of the Economics of Education describes the research frontier in key topical
areas and sets the agenda for further work. Modern analysis in the economics of education …

What new tools and models are enriching labor economics?" Developments in Research
Methods and their Application"(volume 4A) summarizes recent advances in the ways …

Skilled migrants (SMs) are an important source of labour force growth in today's knowledge
economy in many parts of the world. Yet, management scholars have paid only scarce …

The purpose of this chapter is twofold:(1) to provide an accessible introduction to the
methods of structural estimation of discrete choice dynamic programming (DCDP) models …

We examine the impact of restructuring active labor market programs for unemployed
immigrants in Finland. Exploiting a discontinuity in the phase-in rules of the reform, we find …

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital from various countries to
Germany and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the …

This paper studies the short and medium run impact of highly skilled immigrants from the
Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives' wages and employment. If immigrants are relatively …

This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of
immigrants that is based on human capital theory. The sources of the wage growth are (1) …

This article assesses whether two integration policy measures (labor market training and
counseling) reach the immigrants who need them and whether these policies improve …