This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in … asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other … refugees, and their implications for modeling host nations’ asylum policy choices. The chapter closes in Section 6 with …

well as for health and public budgets, including in the context of political economy. Although immigration is sometimes … role and potential. While some suggest that large-scale, selective immigration might contribute to alleviating demographic …

New Zealand there has been an implicit underlying assumption that immigration is good for economic growth, as evidenced by … the attempted use of immigration to resolve particular labour market problems. This paper uses the growth accounting … policy framework to discuss the mechanisms through which immigration can impact economic growth. It reviews the contemporary …

society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the …