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 …

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 …

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

the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country … than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and find that the effect of immigration on trade is a priori …

Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …

distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration …

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 …

This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …