The list of topics of interest, periodically updated, includes:
Labor market impact of immigration on the receiving countries
- Employment and wages of native workers
- Regional effects
- Assimilation of immigrants in terms of employment, wages, and occupation
Immigration and the educational system in receiving countries
- The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
- Concentration of immigrants and school performance
Macroeconomic effects on the receiving economy
- Investment and economic growth
- Immigration, skills and the business cycle
- Income inequality
Public sector and political economy
- Effects on the Welfare State and Social Security systems
- Political economy. Effects on domestic politics
- Immigration policy. Illegal immigration
Attitudes towards immigration
- Polarization and potential conflict. Natives’ attitudes
- Labor-market competition and natives’ attitudes towards immigration
- Non-economic determinants of attitudes
- Sources of attitudinal variation across the EU
Immigrants’ decisions
- Location decisions. Ethnic enclaves. Network formation
- Family formation and family reunification
- Saving decisions and return migration
- Economic mobility. Second-generation immigrants
Economic development and emigration
- Determinants of emigration rates
- Economic effects of emigration on origin countries
- Brain drain
- Remittances
