possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push … imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the … share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP per capita by 2%, the employment rate by 0.89 percentage points, and …

- experimental evidence on the labor market effects of immigration enforcement policies on citizens across the occupational skill …This paper examines the effects of reducing the supply of low-skilled immigrant workers on the labor market outcomes of …-based immigration enforcement policy, combined with data over 2005-2014 from the American Community Survey to estimate a difference …

productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity. While we find evidence …How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …

transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from migrationinduced knowledge diffusion and increased workforce diversity …

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …

Canada's current immigration policy, titled theImmigrant Investor program, is aimed at attracting investors and … entrepreneursto immigrate to Canada and invest in its economy. The goals, objectives andresults of this innovative immigration program …