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 …

socio-economic outcomes and country case studies of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, which illustrate the political …

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 …

1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … of future immigrants resemble those of the current immigrant population in Austria. This is due to a favourable age …

native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …

, ethnicity, religion and education are not responsible for the increasing marital instability in Austria. Quite the contrary …, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … joint taxation with income splitting for married couples, Austria taxes everyone individually, which leads to lower marginal …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

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 …