equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … foreign workers and also admitting an inefficiently large number of permanent migrants, but not enough to fill any labor …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post …-crisis wave (2011–2015) for OECD native citizens. To do so, we develop a general equilibrium model that accounts for the main … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

unemployment. If the jobs performed by domestic workers can be easily substituted by imports, then globalization reduces wages and … increases unemployment. In this situation, in the absence of any government intervention globalization not only reduces the … welfare of workers but could reduce social welfare as well. Both unemployment benefits and severance payments can protect …

This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a … model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding … illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives by setting the time limit of a guest-worker permit. The source country …

contributors to it.Migration policies are set to determine the total migration volume and its skill composition. We characterize … composition and the total number of migrants. We distinguish between two voting behaviors: sincere and strategic voting …

unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an …

unemployment. Labor market regulations, unemployment benefits, and high levels of public consumption in many European countries …