Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …

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 regio nal …

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …

immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …-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 …

earnings of low skilled natives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labour force on native earnings … is examined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is found that immigration has a large negative … effect on the wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effect on the wages of high skilled workers as new …