This paper surveys recent empirical studies on the economic impacts of immigration. The survey first examines the … magnitude of immigration as an economic phenomenon in various host countries. The second part deals with the assimilation of … immigrant workers into host-country labor markets and concomitant effects for natives. The paper then turns to immigration …

the scale and effects of EU labour immigration, and to divergent national policy preferences for reforming free movement …

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …

Immigration could offer one way for Denmark to expand its labour supply, thereby lowering the dependency ratio, at … main changes in policies on immigration in recent years ... …

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are …

immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany …

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …