Straightforward economic arguments point to the potential for large global output gains from
the movement of labor from less to more productive locations. Yet the politics of receiving …

Many migrations are temporary—a fact that has often been ignored in the economic
literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration …

We investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the
period since 1995. Our findings indicate that, when considering the resident immigrant …

If one were to pick one word to describe prevailing attitudes toward the political
establishment in Europe–to describe attitudes toward national parties and politicians and …

This paper aims to evaluate the economic and fiscal effects of inflows of asylum seekers into
Western Europe from 1985 to 2015. It relies on an empirical methodology that is widely used …

Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labour market and social
insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from …

1 This broad group of migrants includes all types of migrants, including refugees. As argued
by Carling (2017), differentiating between migrants and refugees is counter-productive …

Existing research argues that refugee inflows may increase the risk of domestic conflict,
particularly civil war that, by definition, involves the state as an actor. However, many of the …

How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right
and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal …

The share of the foreign‐born population in member countries of the OECD is increasing,
and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those …