We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000–2007 in Greece on labor market … outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income … (search cost) between immigrants and natives. Within such a framework, we find that skilled native workers, who complement …

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes … market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We then ask how models with search improve our understanding of these data …. Our results are mixed. Search models are useful for interpreting the behavior of some additional data series, but search …

study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …

demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …

on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …

substitutes for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …