Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push-distance interactions provide relevant and exogenous variation for identification. Results suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in the share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP...

D'Albis and Boubtane provide empirical evidence on the macroeconomic and fiscal consequences of international migration for OECD countries. The authors use a panel of 19 countries over the period 1980-2015 to study the effects of increases in the net migration rate on per capita GDP and on both...

Barker discusses the economics of migrants experiencing brain waste. Brain waste, including underemployment, occurs when the country hosting a skilled migrant fails to fully recognise the skills of the worker. The workers experience a skill-job mismatch, relatively higher unemployment, or weaker...

Chassamboulli discusses recent research on the effect of immigration policies on job creation. New findings show that various types of immigrants can have a positive impact on employers’ incentives to post vacancies and create new jobs, which benefits also competing natives. Policies that...

Kyrkopoulou and Palivos examine the interaction between the informal sector of the economy and undocumented immigration. For this purpose, they use a search and matching model with two sectors, a formal and an informal one. Native workers can work in both sectors, whereas undocumented immigrants...

Motivated by fiscal austerity and the surge in emigration in Europe's periphery during the Great Recession Bandeira, Caballé and Vella study a particular type of fiscal consolidation: the one carried out through an increase in consumption tax rates. Using a small open economy model with search...

Migration interacts with the domestic labour market through the increase in labour supply from immigration when labour market conditions improve and labour market tightness increases. Lozej studies the amplification mechanism that arises when there are search frictions, as it becomes more...

We use the findings in this volume to gain insights into the best way to connect the macroeconomics of migration with research in history and political science. We show that macroeconomic research could help develop the economic history of migration, the history of the European Union, and the...