We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage … labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …

social outcomes are not well understood. We develop a novel index of ethnic segregation that takes both ethnic and spatial …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … inflow of migrants. Disentangling those flows by type of migrants, we find that the mitigation effect is due mostly to …

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants … immigration …

terrorist attacks against foreigners in their host country. High skilled migrants are associated with a significantly lower risk … of terror compared to low skilled ones, while there is no significant difference between male and female migrants …