This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross … of immigrants across European regions over the 2010-2019 period had a modest impact on the employment-to-population rate …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …