The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among …

The possible effects of higher immigration, raising unemployment and lowering earnings for locals, has been a …, chiefly for the US but recently for the UK, have found the effects of immigration to be benign. One possibility is that an … decades, we find consistently negative displacement effects. They imply that immigration to a region of foreign nationals …

This paper asks whether history can shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labour market impact in high …, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without … links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent …