Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …

choice of its immigration quotas. We first show that our game admits a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium and then study … complementarity and a higher level of tolerance towards immigrants would allow a larger immigration quota and achieve a higher welfare … level. Our results call for coordinated and harmonised immigration policies that may improve the welfare of both countries. …