Economic impact of international migration and the economic performance of migrants.

In the following section of this chapter we begin by documenting the numbers and characteristics of international migrants to selected developed countries. We next survey some of the economic factors motivating international migration. We find empirical research on the determinants of international migration lags far behind work on the determinants of domestic migration. In light of this we devote a larger portion of this section to examining how developed countries regulatory policies affect the composition of their immigrant populations. Section 3 examines the impact of immigration on the receiving countrys labor markets....In Section 4 we examine the extent to which immigrants `assimilate to the receiving countrys labor market.... Finally in Section 5 we survey several studies of immigrants effects on the social welfare system. The primary geographic focus is on the experiences of Australia Canada and the United States. (EXCERPT)