We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation … recipient nation rather than to human smugglers. The cost would be much lower than today's efforts to secure the borders. Asylum … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …

drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences …,844 per missing refugee per year, on average) net of public expenses. Large reductions in the presence of asylum seekers …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …

Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …

This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in … asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other … refugees, and their implications for modeling host nations’ asylum policy choices. The chapter closes in Section 6 with …

This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host … Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data from the OECD Interna- tional Migration Database and data on asylum … asylum seeker ows by their predicted values derived from the estimation of a pseudo-gravity model. Results suggest that both …