This paper examines whether immigration can operate as a counter-process of depopulation and economic recession. Based … channelled recent immigration and asylum seekers to peripheral areas to counterbalance negative demographic trends. Results show …

responsive to changes in cyclical conditions. Immigration provides the skills that the Irish economy needs. The crisis triggered … a sharp reversal in migration flows, with immigration suddenly halting and emigration increasing. A large proportion of … emigration is highly qualified, as is a high proportion of immigration. This pattern of “brain exchange” can contribute to …

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and … meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance … economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that immigration has had small positive effects on per capita incomes and has …

Nordic countries such as Sweden, Norway and Finland have been consistently the most favourable to immigration while … high average levels of support for immigration, however, many countries of western and northern Europe are quite strongly … polarized internally along educational and age lines. This can perhaps explain why political divisions over immigration can be …