data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …

The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

highlights a need for complementary immigration and integration policies. …

that positive opinions about immigration are often associated with a favourable public perception of integration. Looking … at the individual correlates of opinions about immigration and integration, this paper finds that actual knowledge about … the magnitude of immigration is positively correlated with attitudes to immigration but not integration. In contrast, more …

Many immigrant destination countries face considerable pressure to change their immigration policies. One of the most … be more efficient than current ways of allocating visas, could boost the economic contribution of immigration to the …

environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has led to a two-step immigration policy whereby an increasing proportion of …

inequality, and (2) growth in both the size and the diversity of immigration flows. Because a large share of new immigrants … American economy. In this chapter, we first place this concern in context by briefly describing the history of US immigration …, and the impact of immigration on the earnings and employment opportunities of native workers. We show that immigrants have …

were guest workers, including up to a third in Gulf oil-exporting and other Middle Eastern countries. The US immigration …