research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …

research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action …

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade … immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an aggregate point of view, but even from the point of view of workers. In … the politico-economic equilibrium where interest groups lobby for immigration, we show the condition under which workers …

. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …

This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of … level. For a given skill endowment of the native population, we show that immigration reduces the welfare of the host … country up to a certain threshold and then increases it with further immigration. For the case of endogenous skill formation …