capital), and the volume of migration (of both skill types), to be higher in the competitive regime than in the coordinated … the young voter has a tradeoff between the negative effect (an income transfer to the old) and a general equilibrium … positive if the (state variable) the capital stock is within a certain range, or zero, otherwise. Migration share of native …

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 …

suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …-matching framework (Pissaridès, 1985, 2000) in a migration model à la Harris and Todaro (1970). We find that the inflow of TFWs into a … decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing …

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 …

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we … document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the … immigration policies; and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively …

an incentive to liberalize migration policy. The paper examines a political-economy, inter-generational, mechanism … through which the social security system influences voter attitudes in favor of more liberal immigration regime. We … demonstrate that the Markov equilibrium, with social security, consists of more liberal migration policies, than the corresponding …

liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …