This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor … mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in … response to market conditions) and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces outsourcing …

This paper analyzes the issues of immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor … mobility. In our model, legal immigration is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms (in … response to market conditions) and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces outsourcing …

This paper analyzes immigration and outsourcing in a general-equilibrium model of international factor mobility. In our … model, legal immigration of skilled labor is controlled through a quota, while outsourcing is determined both by the firms … in response to market conditions and through policy-imposed barriers. A loosening of the immigration quota reduces …

This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …

This study quantifies the economic effects of two major immigration policies aimed at legalizing undocumented …

immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …

This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of less-skilled immigration to the U.S., and their implications for … immigration reform. It begins with a review of the costs of less-skilled immigration, in terms of competition to native …-born American workers; and the benefits of such immigration in the form of lower consumer prices, higher employer profits, and …

immigration. It investigates the determinants of the immigration decision by workers in source countries and the impact of that … immigration, and delineates the implications of these models for empirical research and for our understanding of the labor market … effects of immigration. © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. …

Since 1986 the United States has made considerable efforts to curb illegal immigration. This has resulted in an …