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 …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …

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 …

This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden …, and a pro-immigrant party received high vote shares. We further document that this episode of mass immigration had lasting …

The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving … countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class …

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … empirical studies, suggests the following conclusions. First, immigration has triggered native flight toward private schools in …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …

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 …