effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal … practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …

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 …

result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … migrants' integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants … module to the role and relevance of social relations for both migrants and natives. An innovative feature of this analysis is …

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In … particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of … stringent immigration policies and large volumes of undocumented immigration. We test this hypothesis using US data from the 7th …

assimilation for migrants in Germany by estimating fixed effects regressions for migrants and Germans separately. Based on the … migrants compared to native Germans by generating predictions and by averaging them by year. This approach allows to decompose … adjustment due to unobserved time-varying factors and age. If all migrants are tarred with the same brush (by pooling them into …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …

, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …

Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia …. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. Despite being considerably more educated than … natives and other migrants, they are less likely to work than natives and other migrants upon arrival to Spain. Using data …