Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...

Zuwanderung kann vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Fachkräftesicherung leisten. Neuzuwanderer stellen bereits heute ein bedeutendes Fachkräftepotenzial dar. So sind 85 Prozent der Personen, die zwischen 1999 und 2009 zugewandert sind, aber nur 66...

Für welche Zielregionen innerhalb Deutschland sich Zuwanderer entscheiden, hängt von verschiedenen Faktoren ab und unterscheidet sich je nach Zuwanderergruppe deutlich. So kommen in die wirtschaftsstarken süddeutschen Bundesländer besonders viele Erwerbsmigranten, während nach...

Migration of people from one country to another and their integration into the society of the destination country constitute a long and complex process. This process begins with the first plan of a person to leave her home country. It does not end until the immigrant stops assimilating and...

In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment...

Many countries pursue an immigration policy that is targeted at attracting high skilled workers. Borjas (1995) has shown that assuming perfect labor markets immigration leads to a welfare gain for the native population, the so-called immigration surplus. Thus, as the labor market for high...

Many European countries restrict immigration from new EU member countries. The rationale is to avoid adverse wage and employment effects. We quantify these effects for Germany. Following Borjas (2003), we estimate a structural model of labor demand, based on elasticities of substitution between...

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...