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 …

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 …

supplies, immigration, and economic responses to political chaos. A few of these, but not the majority, are seen as good …

This paper examines the long-run determinants of immigration to Germany using a modified version of the Ricardo model …

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage …-setting curve is particularly high for young and well-educated workers. The labor market effects of immigration are moderate: a 1 … percent increase in the German labor force through immigration increases the unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage …