International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country … individuals and governments who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international migration regime is … inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … with the hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …

volunteer labour for their electioneering activities. It also examines whether a recorded decline in party activism increases … in activism stems from a fall in their motivation, following parties relying less upon them. This reduces procedural …

We analyze the consequences of activism in a regulated industry where the regulator has been captured by the industry … regulators and their actions generate dead-weight costs. Yet we find that activism may increase social welfare because it …

This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability …-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using data from Norway, a country where around 10% of the working …-age population rely on disability benefits, we find that the amount of time that children are exposed to their fathers receiving …

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 …