Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that …Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that …

Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that …Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that …

immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could … 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 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 …

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could … 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 …

"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in …'s first immigration act and several European initiatives towards legal harmonization at the EU level, an actively controlling … immigration policy which would be needed to master the challenges ahead, is not yet in sight. Against this background, the book …