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 …

, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls …

variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The … positions. The impact is also clearer in industries which have received more workers from the new member states, and for which …

representative cross-national data for 14 European Union Member States collected in 2021. The analysis has three main objectives …

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 …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The … positions. The impact is also clearer in industries which have received more workers from the new member states, and for which …

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 …

future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The … which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that for childless … individuals, who have no reason to care about the future, it is optimal to contribute less to the costly immigration …