I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

Kingdom and Canada -- we examine the performance of Indian entrepreneurs and explanations for their success. We find that … Canada, Indian entrepreneurs have average earnings slightly below the national average but they are more likely to hire … Canada and the United Kingdom contributing less to their entrepreneurial success. …

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on … skilled labor is high as empirical evidence suggests. -- Immigration ; trade union ; unemployment ; welfare state ; elasticity …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …

, which followed the pre-existing patterns of Eastern German immigration immediately after WWII. We construct a Manpower …, European, and Asian firms. Our results help inform relevant debates such as the reform of immigration policies and the …

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 … endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share instrument. Skilled migrants increase the number of patents at both the …

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 immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

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 …