We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United … that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it may have had distributional effects …

We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare,it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in terms …

The paper investigates the welfare aspects of the European Union's restrictions on labour immigration, especially the … labour immigration are found to be considerable, both within and outside the EU. The paper subsequently discusses the future … cheap labour) and outside factors (decreasing fixed costs of illegal immigration, more economic and political refugees …

We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for … unskilled immigration benefits the low-skilled native workers and hurts the high-skilled. On the other hand, new skilled … immigration benefits both skilled and unskilled natives. Moreover, when we simulate the effects of the actual US immigration …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … involves answering a number of subsidiary questions about what can and cannot be debited to immigration. The four main … subsidiary questions are thus. 1. Should the cost of educating immigrants’ children (£7.6bn a year) be attributed to immigration …

establishing themselves and their children in comparison with immigrants in the traditional immigration countries, like the USA. …

immigration, low-skilled unemployment and medium-skilled over-qualification, ii) the polarization effect where both low- and high … migration-induced supply shock of medium-skilled workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate because of the endogenous … benefits; (ii) immigration of medium-skilled labour together with some high-skilled labour has a positive effect on output per …

regarding medium skills, such as i) the interaction between immigration, low-skilled unemployment and medium-skilled over … economy due to international capital flows; (ii) immigration of medium-skilled labour together with some high-skilled labour … lowers the low-skilled unemployment rate and has a positive effect on output per capita; (iii) migration of only medium …