Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

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 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...

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick -- Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers -- Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep -- Modeling immigrants language skills / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller -- Green cards and the location...