Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

Though the issue of illegal immigration has taken a somewhat outsized role in the 2016 presidential election, the fact … remains that legislators have haggled over illegal immigration for decades. At present, the debate over illegal immigration …/earned citizenship views approach illegal immigration differently, and are often politically opposed, each share the same foundational …

concerning immigration, asylum and free movement of workers in its national interest, the whole European construction showing the …

The American legal immigration system is in desperate need of reform. One reform idea with far‐​reaching potential is … the immigration tariff: the sale of permanent conditional work and residency visas that we call gold cards at a price set … efficient and market‐​based immigration system that adjusts to changing economic conditions. As envisioned in this paper …

Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration%u2019s labor market impact in high wage economies? This …-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of immigration on wages and employment with and without international … between these economic relationships and immigration policy. It concludes with an explanation for the apparent difference in …

Whether immigrants advance in labor markets relative to natives is a fundamental question in immigration economics. It … is difficult to answer this question for the Age of Mass Migration, when US immigration was at its peak. New datasets of …