Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This … is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

. We split the postwar decades in three periods: the catching-up period, the overt populism period of 1973-1993, and the … 1993-2008 of stealth populism. In each period, we identify the important players to see how they managed to forge a …. The covert populism of the last period used an unsustainable expansion of foreign borrowing to allow for an …

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 …