Migration in OECD countries: labour market impact and integration issues

Immigration pressures are increasing in most OECD countries. This paper investigates the consequences of immigration for natives’ labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants’ integration in the host country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives’ wages, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration
of immigrants (as well as integration of second-generation immigrants - both in terms of educational attainments and of labour market outcomes) remains the main challenge facing host economies. In both cases, product and labour market policies have a significant role to play in easing the economy’s
adjustment to immigration.

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No.563, July 2007: The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countries http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/162425722235

OECD Economics Department Working Papers, No.564, September 2007: Integration of immigrants in OECD countries: do policies matter? http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/162367775052

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