Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and …

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 … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration …

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing … between EU and non-EU immigrants) a comprehensive analysis of the skill structures of immigrants and their labor market … from non-EU countries – are severely disadvantaged in most countries, even if we compare them to natives with the same …

pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU …Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger … the slump and immigration policy. First, although immigration flows have responded to the slump, and immigrants have borne …

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

from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic …

Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of … opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of … this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …