to live initially and what determines those location choices. Using population data on immigrants from the Immigration …

potentially important implications for post-immigration policies indicating that assimilation and integration policies may be …

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … in magnitude to the immigrant effect on trade estimated in the literature. However, this does not capture the full extent …

some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …

In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … provinces coupled with the absence of cultural (e.g. language) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …