Die Bevölkerung in den europäischen Ländern altert. Das Medianalter in den EU-27-Ländern lag im Jahr 2002 noch bei 38,6 Jahren, im Jahr 2010 war die Hälfte der Bevölkerung bereits mindestens 40,9 Jahre alt. Gleichzeitig stellt die Verfügbarkeit von Fachkräften für eine zunehmende Anzahl...

Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT guest workers and provide new evidence on their inter-firm...

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...