The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply …

Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect … components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share OECD country with a selective immigration policy. We proxy …

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by … with the degree of selectivity of immigration policies at destination. Empirical evidence presented as background …

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 …

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …