This paper analyses the way immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic growth. This is combined with a detailed model of...

This paper analyses the way immigration can help to alleviate the burden aging presents for the welfare states of most Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both aging and immigration on economic growth. This is combined with a detailed model of...

Beyond unobserved heterogeneity in computer wage premiums: Most findings on the (non-)existence of a wage premium on computer use are biased because they are based on single-equation estimation of a wage equation. Controlling for fixed effects ignores the simultaneity problem. Through the...