This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation and … modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident with an increase in prices …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …

-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …

As we approach the 21st Century, Australia needs to thoroughly its future population and immigration policies. The …

substitutes for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants’ arrival … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. …

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …