This paper discusses how an industrialized country could defend the wages and social benefits of its unskilled workers against wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social standards harms the workers and that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment....

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor market consequences of that proficiency, as...

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces...

'The economics of immigration literature has grown in the last decade to reflect the complexity of economic issues arising from international migration. This collection is a comprehensive research resource which allows both the student and scholar to keep abreast with traditional topics and...

Der Sozialstaat wurde geschaffen, die Fehlfunktionen des Arbeitsmarktes zu korrigieren und mehr soziale Gerechtigkeit herzustellen, als es der Markt vermag. Aber der Sozialstaat trägt seinerseits zu den sichtbaren Defekten des Arbeitsmarktes bei. Besonders problematisch ist die heutige...