Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that …Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … despite a number of positive recent developments Europe lacks a consistent strategy to address this challenge effectively …

effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in … various important European destination countries and Europe as a whole. We then discuss key policy issues in the European …

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …

This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses reveal that the adjustment cost related to the introduction of foreign …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …