We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short …

significant for low-skilled immigrants from the new member states or with the medium number of years since immigration, as well as … economic shocks, and support the case for well-designed immigration policy and free movement of workers within the EU. The …

result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …