benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …

underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

den ökonomischen Zusammenhängen von Migration, Arbeitsmarkt und Sozialstaat ist zu wenig allgemein bekannt, ebenso über …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … against the available empirical evidence. The paper concludes that immigration cannot per se be considered as good or bad for …

for Germany, the largest European immigration country, shows that more than 60% of the migrants are indeed repeat migrants …