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 …

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …

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 … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host … analysis examines the effects of permanent migration on class, and national welfare. We show, among other things, that marginal … immigration hurts people already in the country regardless of whether or not non-traded goods exist. The presence of international …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor …