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Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - CESifo - 2012

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...

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Tradable Immigration Quotas

Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - CESifo - 2013

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for individuals and governments who care about world...

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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies

Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - CESifo - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...

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Immigration and Skill Formation in Unionised Labour Markets

Fuest, Clemens; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 1999

This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of skilled and unskilled workers. Due to unionisation, the wage rate in the market for unskilled labour is above the competitive level. For a given skill endowment of the native...

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Welfare Effects of Immigration in a Dual Labor Market

Fuest, Clemens; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 1999

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 demand in the competitive sectors is smaller than in the...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Caglar - CESifo - 2011

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase the probability of potential migrants to obtain a...

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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - CESifo - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Inequality and Redistribution

Engelhardt, Carina; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2014

and the extent of redistribution in democratic regimes – though such a link does not exist when objective measures of …

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Strategic Choices for Redistribution and the Veil of Ignorance: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Gerber, Anke; Nicklisch, Andreas; Voigt, Stefan - CESifo - 2013

We provide experimental evidence on the emergence of redistributive societies. Individuals first vote on redistribution … the time when they choose a distribution rule and find that there is more redistribution behind a veil of ignorance than … under full information. However, the scope of redistribution is less sensitive towards the degree of uncertainty than …

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