Immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the Civil War were less likely to reside in locations with high immigrant concentrations as their time in the U.S. increased. This is contrary to the experience of recent immigrants who show no decrease in concentration after arrival. The reduced...

We consider a country where a king assigns benefits in accordance with privilege determined by the population’s proximity to the throne. People have different relative advantages in seeking privilege and in productive activity. The nature of the contest for privilege determines whether, in...

A partir des principes universalistes de la liberte et de l'egalite formelle des individus, la modernite institue une forme inedite de democratie fondee sur la double valeur de la citoyennete et du travail. Elle inaugure ainsi une dynamique a la fois d'elargissement et de concretisation des...

This paper examines the pattern of capital mobility in a two-country overlapping generations world in which production uses three inputs capital, labor and land. The steady-state welfare consequences of opening countries to financial capital or labor mobility are then compared. In particular, it...

The main conlusion to be drawen from this paper's review of the brain drain data i sthat the 1990s movements of educated Canadians to the United States are surprisingly small, when viewed relative to past movements of educated Canadians to the United States, current perceptions, and past and...

The main conlusion to be drawen from this paper's review of the brain drain data i sthat the 1990s movements of educated Canadians to the United States are surprisingly small, when viewed relative to past movements of educated Canadians to the United States, current perceptions, and past and...

Migration among Spanish regions has fallen significatly since the 1970s, in spite of large and widening regional unemployment rate differentials. In this paper I argue that this evolution is the result of : a large increase in the national unemployment rate; the reduction in regional dispersion...

This paper studies the effect of economic integration of two regions on the mobility of skilled and unskilled workers across regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity. In particular, it studies what happens when wages in both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ –...

The issue of the free movement of persons occupies center stage in the negotiations on EU enlargement. Opinion polls and household surveys reveal that a majority of EU citizens are fearful of the consequences of the free movement of persons. Influenced by these surveys, the EU Commission and...

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...