preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …

, countries compete in taxes for migrants. With asymmetric preferences, migration competition takes place in income support levels …The paper provides an equilibrium analysis of how countries compete for migrants. The type of competition (tax or … results are relevant, e.g., for federal policies that tackle inefficient migration competition and for evaluating whether a …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After … migrations, contrasting economic and refugee migrants, discussing the trade-offs between long-term asylum and temporary …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …

This paper investigates regional or international transfers as a means to prevent immigration into unemployment. We … analyze a two-country model with free migration in which the rich country is characterized by minimum wage unemployment … stronger productivity growth in the poor country, reducing both migration flows and unemployment in the rich country. This …

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 …

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

evidence based on data from countries of wider Europe supports our theory. An expert survey-based measure of the longevity of …

migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with …

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 …

the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs (‘immigration policy’ channel …Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect …