This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The
survey first examines the magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various …

This article reviews cross-national research on multicultural policies in relation to immigrants
in the main European and Anglo-Saxon immigrant-receiving countries. It compares the …

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We construct new series for common native language and common spoken language for
195 countries, which we use together with series for common official language and linguistic …

In recent years policy makers and social scientists have devoted considerable attention to
wellbeing, a concept that refers to people's capacity to live healthy, creative and fulfilling …

Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy, now in its fourteenth edition, continues
to be the leading text for one-semester courses in labor economics at the undergraduate …

Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars
alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an …

This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate the determinants of language
proficiency and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of
language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants …

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 …