How Labor Migrants Fare

I Introduction.- How do labor migrants fare?.- II Migration and Eamings.- Natives and migrants in the London labour market, 1929-1931.- How much did immigrant "quality" decline in late nineteenth century America?.- Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Norway - A reappraisal.- Self-selection, earnings, and out-migration: A longitudinal study of immigrants to Germany.- Comparing migrants to non-migrants: The case of Dutch migration to New Zealand.- III Employment, Unemployment, Self-Employment and Occupational Success.- Declining employment success of immigrant males in Sweden: Observed or unobserved characteristics?.- The employment adjustment of male immigrants in England.- The English language fluency and occupational success of ethnic minority immigrant men living in English metropolitan areas.- Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs.- IV Linguistic Issues and Educational Attainment.- Immigrant earnings: Language skills, linguistic concentrations and the business cycle.- Cohort effects in the educational attainment of second generation immigrants in Germany: An analysis of census data.- V Illegal, Legalized and Unwilling Migrants.- Language skills and earnings among legalized aliens.- Undocumented workers in the labor market: An analysis of the earnings of legal and illegal Mexican immigrants in the United States.- IRCA's impact on the occupational concentration and mobility of newly-legalized Mexican men.- Aboriginals as unwilling immigrants: Contact, assimilation and labour market outcomes.- VI Policy Issues: Selection Criteria and Public Sector Effects.- Public policy and the labor market adjustment of new immigrants to Australia.- Immigrants and the public sector budget - accounting exercises for Sweden.

Prof. Dr. Klaus F. Zimmermann ist Direktor des Instituts zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) und zugleich Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin).