Arbeitspapier

Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy: a European perspective

The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could 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 mechanisms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1715

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
Labor Standards: Labor Force Composition
Thema
migration policy
ethnicity
migrant workers
asylum seekers
family reunification

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Constant, Amelie F.
Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2005

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Constant, Amelie F.
  • Zimmermann, Klaus F.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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