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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

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 …

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Tradable immigration quotas

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - In: Journal of Public Economics 115 (2014) C, pp. 94-108

individuals and governments who care about world poverty. Host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its important … first show theoretically that tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative advantages in hosting …

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Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 23, pp. 1-13

The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas, matching and the new European agenda for Migration

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 13 (2015) 2, pp. 50-56

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Immigration and the future of the welfare state in europe

Alesina, Alberto; Harnoss, Johann; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

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Measuring immigration policies : preliminary evidence from IMPALA : migration policies

Beine, Michel; Burgoon, Brian B.; Crock, Mary; Gest, Justin - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 527-559

character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we … document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the … immigration policies, and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively. …

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy : migration policies

Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 638-672

The current European Union (EU) asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go...

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Tradable refugee-admission quotas and EU asylum policy

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries' and migrants' preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way towards...

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Measuring immigration policies : preliminary evidence from IMPALA

Beine, Michel; Burgoon, Brian; Crock, Mary; Gest, Justin; … - 2014

character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we … document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the … immigration policies; and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively. …

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