This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in …

This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main … demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows. Specifically, I … present a dynamic political-economy model where both income redistribution and immigration policy are chosen by majority vote …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … that allows for heterogeneity at the individual, regional, and country level. Drawing on the 2004 European Social Survey … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the …

We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …

Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given … potentially serious omitted-variables bias, questioning the validity of existing estimates of the effects of trade and immigration … on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … empirical studies, suggests the following conclusions. First, immigration has triggered native flight toward private schools in …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …