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 …

In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be …, can do neither of these. This suggests quite different political coalitions may organize around trade and immigration. In … strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. We then apply this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade …

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 …

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 …