1. Labor Market :
   • Effects on the employment rates and wages of native workers.
   • Regional effects.
   • Assimilation in terms of employment, wages, and occupation.
     


2. Immigrants’ decisions :
   • Location decisions. Ethnic enclaves. Network formation.
   • Polarization and potential conflict. Natives’ attitudes.
   • Saving decisions and return migration.
   • Economic mobility. Second-generation immigrants.


3. Public Sector :
   • Effects on the Welfare State.
   • Political economy. Effect on domestic politics.
   • Immigration Policy. Illegal immigration.


4. Macroeconomic effects on the receiving economy :
   • Investment and economic growth.
   • Industrial composition.
   • Income inequality.


5. Economic development and emigration :
   • Determinants of emigration rates.
   • Economic effects of emigration. Brain Drain.
   • Economic development and international trade.
   • Economic development and foreign direct investment. Remittances. Foreign Aid.


6. Effects of immigration on educational attainment
   • The educational attainment of second-generation immigrants
   • Concentration of immigrants and school performance


7. Immigration, family formation and family reunification
   • Family formation and household characteristics of immigrants
   • Family networks and immigration influx
   • Family characteristics and educational and labor-market attainment


8. Attitudes towards immigration
   • Labor-market competition and natives’ attitudes towards immigration
   • Non-economic determinants of attitudes
   • Sources of attitudinal variation across the EU

These lines of research shall be updated yearly.