Strangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western
countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are …

Ensuring a good match between skills acquired in education and on the job and those
required in the labour market is essential to make the most of investments in human capital …

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 …

This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of
origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009 …

This paper uses register-based panel data to examine over-education amongst immigrants
in Denmark. Foreign-educated immigrants are found to be more prone to over-education …

This paper is concerned with the English-language requirements of occupations in the USA,
as measured by the O* NET database. These scores are linked to employed native and …

In this paper, I study educational integration of students with migration background using
data from five international student assessment studies. First, Blinder–Oaxaca …

An important explanation for immigrants' wage disadvantage is that human capital acquired
in the country of origin is not fully transferable to the country of destination. Credentialing …

The international literature hypothesized a “U-shaped” pattern of immigrants' occupational
trajectories from origin to destination countries due to the imperfect transferability of human …