This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an … to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …

, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes …

the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing … free-migration regime, and the "Fiscal Burden Hypothesis" under the immigration- restricted regime even after controlling …"This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …