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

This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the … using a random spatial effect model. We find that migration contributes to convergence in regional skill endowments across …

-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to … about a quarter of the asymmetric labour market shock would be absorbed by migration within a year. However, in Europe and …

migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour … market opportunities, past migration experience, and international student exchange are strong predictors of future migration … hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …