The persistent gaps in the economic performance between immigrants and natives provide
the basis for policy interventions of various kinds. Improving the immigrants' economic and …

This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training
targeted at women in low-and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence …

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 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 …

Migrants are a growing segment of the highly educated international workforce, and these
skilled migrants (SMs) are critical to the growth of developed, mature economies. SMs …

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

Language proficiency is extremely important for international migrants. Better language
proficiency means easier assimilation in the host country and greater returns to human …

The role of theory in ex ante policy evaluations and the limits that eschewing theory places
on inference In this rigorous and well-crafted work, Kenneth Wolpin examines the role of …

A meta‐analysis is used to study the average wage effects of on‐the‐job training. This study
shows that the average reported wage effect of on‐the‐job training, corrected for publication …

Abstract This paper exploits the episode provided by the mass migration from the former
Soviet Union to Israel in the 1990s to study the effect high skill immigration on productivity …