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 … information on such costs and, once coupled with a matching mechanism taking into account migrants' preferences, generate …

lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …

between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …, suggesting that immigration policies determine the sign and magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using …

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 …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on … reputation in immigration politics. In particular, our fixed-effects estimates indicate a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme … right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and …

of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … after arrival; within five years, more than a quarter of the people studied emigrated. As expected, economic migrants are …

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 …

low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …