In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …

of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives … individual attitudes towards illegal immigrants. To study this question, we use the CCES survey, which was carried out in 2006 in … exposure is significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income and ideology …

Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily …

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation and … modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident with an increase in prices …

Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities …

students improve research outcomes. The impact of more restrictive immigration policies depends on how they affect the quality …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately … imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …

stylized description of the past West German immigration problem. Examining the wage functions of white and blue collar natives …