away from employment opportunities and thus lowers their employment prospects. The paper discusses the implications of …

directly by employers, take vacant jobs, and display employment and participation rates of close to 100 per cent. Our paper … 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 …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …

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 …

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 … low skilled employment, provided that fiscal redistribution is not too intense and the elasticity between high and low …

after the reform: transitions from welfare to employment became more likely and persistence in welfare and inactivity … declined. We observe a large relative increase in transitions from employment to welfare. Immigrants’ responsiveness to the …