This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …

native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of …

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …

I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical … immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good … spending. We empirically test our theoretical hypotheses, the `fiscal effect’ and the `anti-social effect’ of immigration using …

across-the-border work is likely to be more common. There is no robust evidence on an impact on employment or wages. At least …

We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration … decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into the standard complementarity effect, augmented by a Stolper … native welfare effects of various immigration scenarios. A calibration-based simulation reveals that the size of the inflow …

A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …