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 a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

In the globalized economy, labor migration has become of central importance. A key issue in the analysis of immigration … is how the migrants fare in the economy in which they migrate, and how they assimilate towards the behavior of the … natives. Using data from the United States, Canada, many European countries, Australia and New Zealand, the chapters study the …

. Traditional immigration countries with a long experience in selecting migrants are nonetheless confronted with the need to …Calculating the net fiscal effects of immigration not just for a fiscal year but over the lifespan of immigrant cohorts … economic losses or only a reduced surplus. A country comparison of net tax payments and generational accounts for migrants and …

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 …