exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the 1920s Immigration Acts …

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List …

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 …

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We … empirical evidence by studying the labour-market integration process of Ethnic Germans, one of the largest immigration groups in …

immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …

result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …