This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural … provinces, we test for the existence of a mitigating effect of immigration in terms of an increase in the size of the non … inflow of migrants. Disentangling those flows by type of migrants, we find that the mitigation effect is due mostly to …

decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing … suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …