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 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 …

natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …

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 …

We explore the implications of migrants' self-selection for the determination of immigration policy in a simple model … migrants to immigration policy changes, which is crucial for predicting the effects of such policy in the receiving country …. For example, restricting immigration when it is low skilled may worsen self-selection and thus the receiving country skill …

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required … stock in the long run and controlling the flows in the short-run. -- immigration ; real option …

We propose a theoretical framework for analyzing the problems associated to unilateral immigration policy in receiving … countries and for evaluating the grounds for reform of international institutions governing immigration. We build a model with … multiple destination countries and show that immigration policy in one country is influenced by measures adopted abroad as …