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 …

Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human …-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far the largest group. The immigration system has been highly successful … language skills and a decline in returns to pre-immigration labour market experience. Canada has responded by modifying its …

-quality data on migrants essential. Regular update of these data is crucial to capture the changes in size and composition of …

household composition, age structure, industry structure, educational attainment and immigration on inequality. The influence of …

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 …