opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … two centuries? This paper seeks answers to this dual policy paradox by exploring the fundamentals which have influenced … the evolution of policy: the decline in the costs of migration and its impact on immigrant selectivity, a secular switch …

links between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent … difference in immigration's impact in the two global centuries, and thus on policy. …

This paper analyzes how population aging affects immigration policy in rich industrialized countries. It sets up a two …-period model of a representative democracy with two overlapping generations. The government’s preferred immigration rate increases … with the immigrants. -- Demographic Change ; Political Economy ; Immigration Policy …

liberalisation, studies on the determinants of democracy have often overlooked the influence of demographic factors such as … stability of liberal democracy. It is not surprising, noting the recent revolutions such as the Arab spring and the Egyptian … authoritarian regimes or sustain liberal democracies as a result of youth-led democracy movements as witnessed in Costa Rica, India …

IEMS Faculty Associate Prof. Wenbo Wang examines how people become green by studying a policy change in China which …