immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration … are relatively more concerned with immigrations impact on social issues such as crime than on the employment effects …

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 …

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