the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs ('immigration policy' channel …Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs ('self-selection' channel) and increase …

decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing … suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … inflow of migrants. Disentangling those flows by type of migrants, we find that the mitigation effect is due mostly to …

to higher concentration of low-skill migrants. Interestingly, diasporas explain majority of the variability of migration …