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

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

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 … various important European destination countries and Europe as a whole. We then discuss key policy issues in the European …

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …

This chapter provides the historical context for the past half-century in Europe focusing specifically on the link …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

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 …

. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses reveal that the adjustment cost related to the introduction of foreign …

I examine the effect of immigrant inflows in Europe on natives' individual attitudes towards redistribution and … immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The … paper discusses the recent changes to Canadian immigration policy, examines preliminary evaluations of the new programs and …Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a …