immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we …rst discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The … which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that for childless … individuals, who have no reason to care about the future, it is optimal to contribute less to the costly immigration …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous low-skilled workers do not finance …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants’ education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …