This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and … unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for … migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …

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 …

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

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two … sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment … real wages and unemployment levels in the unskilled labor intensive sector. However, the inequality of workers between …