The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of
labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the numbers and characteristics of international
migrants to selected developed countries, explores some of the economic factors motivating …

Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers who have the same education
but differ in their work experience, and the nature of the supply imbalance changes over …

During the Age of Mass Migration (1850–1913), the United States maintained an open
border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work finds that …

The early work of Gilles Grenier, and Walter McManus, William Gould, and Finis Welch
concluded that US immigrants who are proficient in the English language have higher …

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 national origin of an individual's human capital is a crucial determinant of its value.
Education and labor market experience acquired abroad are significantly less valued than …

NATIONAL BORDERS SEEM increasingly porous. Nearly 215 million persons now live in a
country where they were not born, so immigrants account for about 3 percent of the world's …

This article uses the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Public Use Samples of the US census to
document what happened to immigrant earnings in the 1980s and to determine if pre-1980 …

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 …