This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …

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 …

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration …

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural …, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants …' labor supply or bargaining power differ. Estimation of the curve for Spain indicates that the fall in unemployment since …

Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper …