Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …

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 …

This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main … demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows. Specifically, I … present a dynamic political-economy model where both income redistribution and immigration policy are chosen by majority vote …

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our … model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms … in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces …

immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively … related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host nations' optimal levels of immigration are … on capital is a function of the levels of immigration in both countries, meaning that immigration is a public good. As a …

This chapter summarizes the literature on the evaluation of immigration policies. It brings together two strands of the …

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …