research on the labour market impact of immigration. The synthesis of this literature is facilitated by reference to the … results from a recent meta-analysis of the impact of immigration on wages. Secondly, the paper briefly reviews international … research on other dimensions of the economic impact of immigration, namely productivity and technical change, trade and …

capacity’ of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers … we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …

-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from …

population and migrant non-Maori New Zealanders. Where appropriate, we also distinguish Maori migrants born in New Zealand and … outcomes. While many Maori migrants appear to be living a relatively ‘good life’, earning comparatively high incomes in lower …

; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …

on mental health one must compare the mental health of migrants to what their mental health would have been had they … health of migrants to that of natives in the destination country,which takes no account of any pre-existing differences … of migrants who were successful applicants in the lottery to the mental health of those who applied to migrate under the …

country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a …

-random selection of emigrants. This paper uses the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category … (PAC) of New Zealand’s immigration policy to address this problem. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga …