administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ … 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 …

observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …

achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do … immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men’s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women’s unemployment rates are driven …

cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …

mainly from the impact of training on the job offer probabilities and, consequently, on unemployment, and not, as …

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …

compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …

size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …