A burgeoning literature has emerged during the last two decades to assess the economic
impacts of immigration on host countries. In this paper, we outline the quantitative …

The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina of the early nineties displaced 1.3 million people. This
study uses longitudinal data to document the effects of this displacement on labor market …

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number
of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the …

The use of H-1B and other work visas to hire foreign information technology (IT)
professionals in the United States has attracted significant controversy and policy debates …

By Dakshina G. De Silva, Robert P. McComb, Young-Kyu Moh, Anita R. Schiller, and Andres
J. Vargas* markets will not be specifically affected by local or even regional demand shocks …

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the
impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small …

1. 1 Research Scope Ever since the introduction of social insurance legislation beginning in
the last th decades of the 19 century, social scientists have been interested in analyzing the …

This paper examines the potential impact of East–West migration of talent on the innovative
capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries …

This chapter provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes toward foreigners
displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Those who …

The perception that immigrants take jobs away and push down the wages of native workers
is longstanding. Given that the recent wave of Latin American immigration in the 1980s and …