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 …

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host … analysis examines the effects of permanent migration on class, and national welfare. We show, among other things, that marginal … immigration hurts people already in the country regardless of whether or not non-traded goods exist. The presence of international …

The paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor …