Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue …-skill immigration. I formalise this hypothesis theoretically in a partial equilibrium model with constant elasticity of substitution in … which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …

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 …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …

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 …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …

Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade … immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an aggregate point of view, but even from the point of view of workers. In … the politico-economic equilibrium where interest groups lobby for immigration, we show the condition under which workers …

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 …