The paper provides an overview on recent trends of immigration in OECD countries and on the possible effects of … immigration on labour markets and government budgets. It also discusses migration policies from an economic point of view. By …

September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between 2004 and 2011, we examine the relationship between immigration …

The claim that "skilled immigration is welcome" is often associated to the increasing adoption of selective immigration … policies. I study the voting over differentiated immigration policies in a two-country, three-factor one-period model where … there exist skilled and unskilled workers, migration decisions are endogenous, enforcing immigration restriction is costly …

benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale … of a selective immigration policy and provides empirical evidence about the adverse effects of current selection …