the long-run viability of society as a whole. One possible solution is to permit more immigration, which will both … increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991-2000 and 2001-2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks - the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …

-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …

. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … of non-migrants. Using the consensus aggregate model of labor demand and supply we simulate the long-run employment and … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …

This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to … recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among natives. Our … method to calibrate the model on historical data and then consider two counterfactual variants: a cutoff of all immigration …