Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual norms and values strongly shape preferences over...

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural resource sectors. We first derive predicted changes in the size of the non-tradable sector from a small general-equilibrium model à la Obstfeld-Rogoff, supplemented by a resource...

Nach Angaben der OECD steht Deutschland mittlerweile bei der Zahl der dauerhaften Zuwanderer an zweiter Stelle hinter den USA. Welche ökonomischen Effekte sind zu erwarten, und wie sollte die Migration gesteuert werden? Joachim Herrmann, Bayerischer Staatsminister des Innern, für Bau und...

In Ergänzung zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 3/2015 plädiert Achim Dercks, Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag, dafür, den eingeschlagenen Weg mit erleichterten zuwanderungsrechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen weiter zu gehen und geeignete Willkommensstrukturen zu etablieren, um die...

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 have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...

Hans-Werner Sinn zeigt die ökonomischen Effekte der Migration und diskutiert die Frage, ob man die Migration so steuern sollte, dass sie zur Stabilisierung und zum Nutzen der bereits ansässigen Bevölkerung beiträgt.

We develop a two-sector, two-country model where trade is driven by technological differences. Each country is populated by large number of heterogeneous workers distinguished by their level of skills. Given that one country has a technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we...