This paper analyzes the role of ethnic communities in shaping the recent immigration boom to Spain. We find that ethnic … communities exerted a strong positive effect on the scale and a strong negative effect on the skill structure of this immigration …

This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing … account GDP per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no … significant effect on property prices, but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no …

A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic impacts of immigration on host … revisit the impacts of immigration at the regional level. We briefly review analytical approaches for identifying regional … born, particularly of those who are low skilled, following positive net immigration. The employment elasticity is also …

Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis …

Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the … between immigrants and non-immigrants rather than to immigration status per se. Moreover, evidence in some countries suggests …