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 …

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …

patterns in a multivariate context, attentive to selectivity processes and the Globalista impulse. -- Immigration policy … ; immigrant selection criteria ; employment immigration ; highly skilled immigration ; illegal immigration ; ethnicity ; race …

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants … misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants …

for highly skilled migrants vis-à-vis lowskill migrants. Based on micro-data for 11 EU countries, a discrete choice model …

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 …

their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …