underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …

of an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …

benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …