-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically … successful migrants can alleviate some of the demographic burden associated with an aging population.We embed this discussion …

This paper compares the eff ects of immigration fl ows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion … account for non-random location choices of immigrants and fi nd that immigration has no adverse eff ects on regional … but does not confi rm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that …

. It is shown that expected earnings, an idiosyncratic home bias, network ties to other migrants, strength of links to the … migration as well as the distribution of number of trips of migrants. It is shown how it can also be used for computational …

, provides a short description of recent German policy initiatives regarding the temporary immigration of high-skilled labour. In … view of our descriptive results these temporary immigration policies seem, however, to satisfy only partly the demand of … firms interested in recruiting foreign high-skilled workers. A more comprehensive immigration policy covering also the …

migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration …

status exchange hypothesis for Australia and the United States, two Anglophone nations with long immigration traditions whose …

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 …