the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on …

provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …

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 …

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

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