welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two … perceptions about migrants in Europe. Based on a simple model of the perceived fiscal effects of migration and on a largely … not find much support among those who are in favour of immigration. A way out of the migration into the welfare state …

, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration … variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or …For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global …

-2018. We measure convergence of labor market outcomes for male and female migrants to similar natives before and after the … Great Recession and across countries of destination. Our results show that in most countries female migrants start with a … larger employment gap but converge more rapidly than male migrants do. We also provide a broad overview of the role of …

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …

As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …

majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. … European labour immigrants to Norway for a period of up to eight years after entry. We find that the migrants were particularly … fraction of immigrant men claiming unemployment insurance benefits rose from below 2 to 14 per cent. Some of this increase …

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … following changes to UK immigration policy, especially the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Scheme and the introduction of the … Points Based System. As a result, the stock of migrants from EaP countries resident in the UK is small, especially in …