immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap …With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could …

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent …

. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the … district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …

In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the … universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as …, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in …

affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight …