geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the … of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all …

revisited in this study: skilled-biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product … development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

individuals and governments who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international migration regime is …International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country … inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its …

with high-skilled and low-skilled labor. I address wage and welfare effects under flexible wages, and under a minimum wage …. I also explore trade policy implications and compare offshoring to migration. …

if highly productive labor is mobile. Extortionary governments‘ incentives for a policy that stimulates higher private …

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and … employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor … migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs (‘immigration policy’ channel …

suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …We analyze the impact of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and permanent immigrants on interprovincial mobility in …-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a …

results provide evidence of migration contribution to host economic prosperity (positive impact on GDP per capita and negative … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

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 …