Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly …-augmenting effect of an immigration shock is a significant secondary adjustment process that must be considered when assessing the …

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …

(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated … against the available empirical evidence. The paper concludes that immigration cannot per se be considered as good or bad for …