This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

. Inequality, measured with anthropometric methods, was associated with a lower speed of human capital formation. Not all talents … converged somewhat during this period. In addition, we study the correlates of low-intensity immigration in Chile. Regions with …

district and firm level. Large, high-productivity and capital-intensive firms benefit the most, in terms of innovation activ …

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …

association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

the particular savings hypothesis. However, if savings out of capital income are substantial so that a certain threshold …

In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmenting technical change the steady-state growth rate … of output per worker is shown to increase in the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This confirms the …