productivity developments and help businesses to weather the COVID-19 shock. Building on the population’s solid education levels by …

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of … level. For a given skill endowment of the native population, we show that immigration reduces the welfare of the host …, an increase in expected immigration raises the number of skilled individuals in the native population. If the government …