Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin. -- international migration ; selective immigration policies …

While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows how skilled immigration can … workers have declined in a period where immigration has been rising strongly, and have declined significantly more in high …

lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant … be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …

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 …

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 …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …

sensitive to the immigration policies set by other destination countries, an externality that we are able to quantify …