which the social security system influences the young decisive voter's attitudes in favor of a more liberal immigration …

social security and migration. We characterize sub-game perfect Markov equilibria where immigration policy and pay … demonstrate that the older is the native born population the more likely is that the immigration policy is liberalized and the …

We study the immigration policy that maximizes the welfare of the native population in an economy where the government … different tax systems for immigrants and natives, free immigration is optimal. It is also optimal to use the tax system to … encourage the immigration of high-skill workers and discourage that of low-skill workers. When immigrants and natives must be …

differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead … measured in efficiency units of labor. The estimated gains from removing immigration restrictions are huge. Using a simple …

-degree applicants. Since then, the U.S. Customs and Immigration Service (USCIS) has used visa allocation rules that comply with this …

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before …

We examine how increasing the number of visas available to potential migrants would affect unauthorized immigration …. This policy aims to serve as an additional deterrent to unauthorized immigration, but may be ineffective given that most … individuals are ineffective at current rates of legal immigration, but that increased legalization rates would amplify the …

education overseas is that the US has come to rely extensively on the immigration of highly educated persons to maintain a lead …