Most research on the labor-market outcomes of immigrants has studied the behavior of
individuals, focusing primarily on the wage assimilation process, or the excess returns to …

Research on the effect of language skills on earnings is complicated by the endogeneity of
language skills. This study exploits the phenomenon that younger children learn languages …

Using 1980–2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on
married adult immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles, we find that immigrant women …

A steady flow of new immigration has led the foreign-born share of the US population to rise
from 4.8 percent in 1970 to 11.1 percent in 2000. Perhaps more dramatically, the percentage …

This paper analyzes the recent mass immigration from the USSR to Israel. We examine
three interrelated features of the assimilation process; the rise in the productive capacity of …

We use Census of Population microdata for 1980 and 1990 to examine the labor supply and
wages of immigrant husbands and wives in the United States in a family context. Earlier …

This paper analyses the process of labour market insertion of firstgeneration immigrants in
Denmark using Danish administrative data for 2002. Results show that there are large gaps …

This dissertation consists of three independent essays, all of which are empirical treatments
of different types of investment. The first essay evaluates the economic consequences of the …

Because research on the effect of language skills on earnings is complicated by the
endogeneity of language skills, this study exploited the phenomenon that younger children …

Research on the effect of language skills on earnings is complicated by the endogeneity of
language skills. This study exploits the phenomenon that younger children learn languages …