Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … in scientific and engineering fields. By raising the demand for housing, immigration also spurs residential investment …

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …

-worker system is preferred to a non-discriminatory immigration regime and why measures to improve the integration of low …

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices in relation to immigration flows for 85 regions from 2001 to … 2006. The results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price … inflation and modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1 % of an area’s population is coincident with an …

, estimation, and interpretation of gravity models are illustrated in different contexts and limitations of current practices are …

enlargement in 2004 and 2007. In this light, Germany's restrictive immigration policy received poor marks. Recent measures-such as … Germany's labor migration regulation law, which is intended to ease the immigration of highly qualified foreigners …-are certainly steps in the right direction. However, they still do too little to enable Germany to exploit the opportunities offered …