Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …

controls at the Italian frontier. With the border controls in place, groups of migrants and asylum seekers who had planned to … cross the border irregularly were pushed back to the Italian lands. With rejected migrants clustering at the border, natives … areas of Liguria, Italy, between 2011 and 2019. It documents that the backlog of migrants in the Italian border area was …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …

migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …