Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
We study the migration policy set by a welfare maximizing government in a model where immigrant workers differ in their skills and are imperfectly matched with heterogenous occupations. The policy fixes a minimum skill level for legal migrants, and foreign workers that fall below it can only...