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

1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …

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 …

, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

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 …