Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …

Germany has about the same proportion of foreigners in its population as the United States, it is an immigration … country. In a way, Germany has let immigration happen, but it did not really have an explicit immigration policy in the past …. Now it has to make up its mind on its immigration policy in the future. The paper looks at the experience with immigration …

forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in … West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants … and native West Germans that were comparable before the war perform strikingly different. Migrants have substantially …

While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and … the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants …. This paper compares both immigration policies through the transition for the United States and Mexico. I find that: (i) the …