USA is of our own making. US taxpayer financed agricultural subsidies render Mexican farmers unable to compete. Poverty … fuels migration (Peace, 2009). If US taxpayers are financing agricultural subsidies that encourage immigration to the USA …

decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can …

skills and are imperfectly matched with heterogenous occupations. The policy fixes a minimum skill level for legal migrants …

protecting migrants from exploitation. However; in practice they can undermine labour protections. As well as a tap regulating …

setting in which there is uncertainty on the supply of migrants, and the policy maker who faces elections can be of one of two … types. Either he has preferences congruent with the median voter, or he desires a larger number of migrants, because he is … wants to admit more migrants than the median voter, he might find it optimal to announce a binding quota to be re …

skills and are imperfectly matched with heterogenous occupations. The policy fixes a minimum skill level for legal migrants …

Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If … with uncertainty on the migrants' supply, where an elected official can either have preferences congruent with the median … voter, or prefer a larger number of migrants. We show that, if the incumbent prefers more migrants than the median, he might …