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We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a 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. …
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What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took place from 2000 to 2014. Our results show that a higher immigrant exposure … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … native population nor immigration flows. In the case of AI, we determine an increase in the wage gap as well as the …
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I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly skilled...
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The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...
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We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …
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differences for tax policies between free and controlled migration, and the role of productivity gap"--National Bureau of Economic …
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