The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiraling demand for highly skilled workers … firms recruit foreign workers in small numbers and are willing to pay migrants the same wage as local workers and at the …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates -- and that … immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' total income but not on employment rates. Our results are consistent …

substitutes for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives … exposure is significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income and ideology … entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation and … modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident with an increase in prices …

immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …

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 … migrants from around 80 source countries who were observed as immigrants in each of 29 OECD countries in 2000/1. We develop a …