The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of … increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …

into the United States and Europe, with the coming three decades, which will see sharp reductions in labor-supply growth in … markedly. Europe, in contrast, will face substantial demographically driven migration pressures from across the Mediterranean …

Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration …

The paper compares migration policy and welfare state generosity between America and Europe. There is more selective … may explain in part these US-Europe differences in policies …

We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …

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 …