While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows how skilled immigration can … workers have declined in a period where immigration has been rising strongly, and have declined significantly more in high …

lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant … be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …