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

We develop a dynamic political-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three distinct … voting groups: skilled workers, unskilled workers, and old retirees. The essence of inter- and intra … migrants, and the total number of migrants. When none of these groups enjoy a majority (50 percent of the voters or more …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international … between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It … is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …

The United States has experienced rising immigration levels and changing source since the 1950s. The changes in source … have been attributed to the 1965 Amendments to the Immigration Act that abolished country-quotas and replaced them with a … US immigrants. Given this view, it seems all the more remarkable that the sources of immigration changed so dramatically …

immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …

In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on … party voting with a classification of each party's political agenda on a scale of their "nationalistic" attitudes over 28 …

social security and migration. We characterize sub-game perfect Markov equilibria where immigration policy and pay …-as-you-go (PAYG) social security system are jointly determined through a majority voting process. The main feature of the model is … 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 …