The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin. -- international migration ; selective immigration policies …

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade … immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an aggregate point of view, but even from the point of view of workers. In … the politico-economic equilibrium where interest groups lobby for immigration, we show the condition under which workers …

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

We study the immigration policy that maximizes the welfare of the native population in an economy where the government … different tax systems for immigrants and natives, free immigration is optimal. It is also optimal to use the tax system to … encourage the immigration of high-skill workers and discourage that of low-skill workers. When immigrants and natives must be …

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade … immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an aggregate point of view, but even from the point of view of workers. In … the politico-economic equilibrium where interest groups lobby for immigration, we show the condition under which workers …

In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be …, can do neither of these. This suggests quite different political coalitions may organize around trade and immigration. In … strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. We then apply this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade …