Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DEF), Libera … - 2009
We study immigration policy in a small open receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that … immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … insights may help rationalize the cross-country variation in attitudes towards immigration and choices of immigration policy. …