framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … policy interventions are explained and the specific case of immigration policy is analyzed. It becomes transparent that the … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …

assimilation process (size of the community and number of foreigners in the region of residence). We compare the differential rates …

. This large scale immigration within a short time period had important social, as well as, economic consequences. The paper … reviews the existing evidence and concludes that on average the economic effects of immigration were beneficial, although … their distributional consequences were adverse. Greek immigration policy was haphazard and more efforts are needed in order …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an … more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older …

for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and …

This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the …