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immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
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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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We model an overlapping-generations economy with two skill levels: skilled and unskilled. The welfare-state is modeled simply by a proportional tax on labor income to finance a demogrant in a balanced-budget manner. Therefore, some (the unskilled workers and old retirees) are net beneficiaries...
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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 …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …' skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … 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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, which followed the pre-existing patterns of Eastern German immigration immediately after WWII. We construct a Manpower …, European, and Asian firms. Our results help inform relevant debates such as the reform of immigration policies and the …
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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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The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …
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