society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This … Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the … potential endogeneity issue. The author finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign population in …

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of … simulations we evaluate the effects of immigration on the size and quality of Spain's public education. Our main findings are as …

immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

We build a simple model of self-selection into migration and immigration policy determination. We first show that the … effect of any immigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a composition effect. We then explore how the optimal …

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …

The immigration of relatively unskilled workers poses a fundamental problem for liberals. While from the perspective of …, and we anticipate the fiscal burden that the immigration of the poor would impose, then our welfare criterion would … them as equals. A liberal can avoid this "immigration paradox" by adopting a cosmopolitan perspective that extends equal …

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 …