suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries’ comparative …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

This paper investigates the effect of labor immigration on public pensions when wage setting by a centralized trade … union leads to unemployment. It is shown that immigration improves the financial soundness of pay-as-you-go pensions if and …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …