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 …

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 …

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 …

through which the social security system influences voter attitudes in favor of more liberal immigration regime. We …

illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives by setting the time limit of a guest-worker permit. The source country …

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … source country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal … spending on education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country …