between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …, suggesting that immigration policies determine the sign and magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We …

future, the host countries allocate very limited amounts of resources to the struggle against illegal immigration. The … which the intensity of the struggle against immigration can be related to fertility. The analysis shows that for childless … individuals, who have no reason to care about the future, it is optimal to contribute less to the costly immigration …

Most previously used measures of immigrant labor market assimilation will be biased if there is non-random emigration … of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of immigration on election outcomes. Our analysis makes use of data on … reputation in immigration politics. In particular, our fixed-effects estimates indicate a positive effect for xenophobic, extreme … right-wing parties and an adverse effect for the Green party that actively campaigned for liberal immigration policies and …

lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …