In this paper I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the … consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration … research. What follows is a non-technical discussion of what I see as some of the key issues regarding immigration policies …

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …

-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill … distribution, which is of paramount importance given the current immigration policy debates. …

effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an …

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …