inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries’ comparative … advantage in hosting immigrants and, once coupled with a matching mechanism taking migrants’ preferences over destinations and …

This paper investigates the effect of labor immigration on public pensions when wage setting by a centralized trade … union leads to unemployment. It is shown that immigration improves the financial soundness of pay-as-you-go pensions if and …

This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … source country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal … spending on education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …

the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs (‘immigration policy’ channel …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 …

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, which are driven by the natives’ expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …

on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We …

This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of … level. For a given skill endowment of the native population, we show that immigration reduces the welfare of the host … country up to a certain threshold and then increases it with further immigration. For the case of endogenous skill formation …

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 …