unprecedented boom of immigration from three localized areas: Latin America, Africa and East Europe. In this paper, we study the … so called, 'immigration boom ', but at the expense of allocating immigrants in bad job-matches. …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …

We analyze the employment effects of immigration within a model that accounts for several stylized facts of the German … wages results from employment shifts from low-wage to high-wage sectors. Employment effects of immigration are opposite to … those of a rise in the minimum wage. For plausible parameter values, immigration raises employment of the home labor force …

This paper argues that immigration can help to alleviate the burden ageing presents for the welfare states of most … Western Economies. We develop a macroeconomic framework which deals with the impact of both ageing and immigration on economic … conclusions are that immigration will help to alleviate the ageing problem, as long as the immigrants will be able to participate …

. Relative to immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea – countries not covered by the post-Tiananmen immigration policy … green card has a significant positive effect on skilled migrants' labor market outcomes. …

In this paper I provide estimates of the impact of immigration on native wage and employment levels (rather than on … effects in the service sector and large native employment increases in manufacturing due to immigration. This heterogeneous … response is explained by large increases in output in manufacturing, due to a high elasticity of product demand, as immigration …