Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … barriers through family reunification programs (’immigration policy channel’). This paper presents an identification strategy …

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 … immigration. Nevertheless, interprovincial migration also results in a spreading effect of Dutch disease from booming to non …

suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …

This paper investigates the theoretical effects of immigration in an occupa- tional choice model with three sectors: a … it implies that low-skilled immigration un- ambiguously reduces wages and welfare of all workers. However, when public … employment is considered, we demonstrate that immigration increases wages in the high-skilled and the public sectors, provided …

The debate regarding the economic effects of immigration has attracted renewed interest in European countries since the …. Overall, the empirical results suggest that the immigration shock on the employment rates of native-born workers is persistent …