Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … with the hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that … country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. …

equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large number of permanent migrants, but not enough to fill any labor …

The review outlines a simple analytical model to explain the unemployment puzzle, especially the U-curve phenomenon. It …