federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration … competition induced by low-skill immigration. The results are robust to instrumenting immigration and state effective minimum …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …

We use recent immigration data from 195 countries and propose an index of population diversity based on people … uncorrelated with ethnic, linguistic or genetic diversity. Our main result is that the diversity of skilled immigration relates … gravity model to predict the share and diversity of immigration based on exogenous bilateral variables. The results are robust …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration. …