How Labor Migrants Fare

✍ Scribed by Amelie Constant, Klaus F. Zimmermann (auth.), Professor Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann, Dr. Amelie Constant (eds.)

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 418
Series: Population Economics
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the natives. Using data from the United States, Canada, many European countries, Australia and New Zealand, the chapters study the developments of earnings, employment, unemployment, self-employment, occupational choices and educational attainment after migration. The book also investigates the role of language in labor market integration and examines the situation of illegal, legalized and unwilling migrants. Policy effects are also studied: Among those are the effects of selection criteria of labor market success and the effects immigrants have on the public sector budget of the receiving country. Hence, the book provides a broad picture of the performance of migrants.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VI
How do labor migrants fare?....Pages 1-11
Natives and migrants in the London labour market, 1929–1931....Pages 13-35
How much did immigrant “quality” decline in late nineteenth century America?....Pages 37-53
Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Norway — A reappraisal....Pages 55-71
Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration: A longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany....Pages 73-95
Comparing migrants to non-migrants: The case of Dutch migration to New Zealand....Pages 97-119
Declining employment success of immigrant males in Sweden: Observed or unobserved characteristics?....Pages 121-137
The employment adjustment of male immigrants in England....Pages 139-166
The English language fluency and occupational success of ethnic minority immigrant men living in English metropolitan areas....Pages 167-190
Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs....Pages 191-222
Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle....Pages 223-249
Cohort effects in the educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Germany: An analysis of census data....Pages 251-277
Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens....Pages 279-305
Undocumented workers in the labor market: An analysis of the earnings of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States....Pages 307-332
IRCA’s impact on the occupational concentration and mobility of newly-legalized Mexican men....Pages 333-350
Aboriginals as unwilling immigrants: Contact, assimilation and labour market outcomes....Pages 351-375
Public policy and the labor market adjustment of new immigrants to Australia....Pages 377-403
Immigrants and the public sector budget — accounting exercises for Sweden....Pages 405-424

✦ Subjects

Population Economics; Labor Economics; Sociology, general

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