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 …

security system. This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model designed to quantify the role played by immigration in … the immigration process accounting for relevant supply and demand effects. This is done by allowing for enough …

A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … economy's human capital stock outweighs the immigration-induced adverse effect on educational incentives for natives, or …

redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of immigration. Under the first scenario, immigration has a larger impact on …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … negatively correlated with pro-immigration preferences, while individual skill is positively correlated with them. These …