for highly skilled migrants vis-à-vis lowskill migrants. Based on micro-data for 11 EU countries, a discrete choice model …

The economic literature provides ample evidence that immigration of highly skilled workers is beneficial for the host … economy. Yet, when compared to countries such as the USA or Canada, Europe receives a lower share of migrants with tertiary … education, raising concerns that the EU does not attract enough highly skilled migrants. There is, however, considerable …

Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and …

Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and …

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all … entrance barriers and coercive measures to prevent illegal entry would disappear. However, the pressure of illegal migrants is …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …

individuals. The present paper studies the Europeans' attitudes toward immigration, focusing particularly on the role of social …

-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on … the UK and combine the British and the European Labour Force Surveys to analyse whether immigration to the UK has changed …

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 …