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 …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare … intuitions for the results and their policy implications. …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants …' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about … better matched than those in the first cohort. The policy change appears to have reduced the incidence of over …

policy at the European level can generate welfare improvements. A selective policy that discourages unskilled migrants and …-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …

local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive resources. The intertemporal adjustments for both resources …

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic … the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a … framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … policy interventions are explained and the specific case of immigration policy is analyzed. It becomes transparent that the …

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …