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Dissecting network externalities in international migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2011

the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs ('self-selection' channel) and increase … externality is strong: the elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity …

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When the union hurts the workers : a positive analysis of immigration policy

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti - 2005

This paper studies the determinants of immigration policy in an economy with entrepreneurs and workers where a trade union has monopoly power over wages. The presence of the union leads a benevolent government to implement a high level of immigration and induces a welfare loss not only from an...

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A simple model of brain circulation

Schmitt, Nicolas; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2005

This paper considers the allocation of two types of individuals differentiated by levels of talent within and between two countries when they choose to be workers or entrepreneurs. The equilibrium with international migrations requires both countries to be sufficiently different in talent...

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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …

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Workers without borders? Culture, migration and the political limits to globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - 2010

This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …

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Self-confirming immigration policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012

We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this interaction multiple equilibria may arise,...

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What drives immigration amnesties?

Casarico, Alessandra; Facchini, Giovanni; Frattini, Tommaso - 2012

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two channels play an important role: an amnesty is more likely...

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The Effect of Recent Technological Change on US Immigration Policy

Brey, Björn - 2021

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue that as automation shifted employment from routine to manual occupations at the bottom end of the skill distribution, it increased competition between natives and immigrants,...

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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Too many migrants, too few services : a model of decision-making on immigration and integration with cultural distance

Verbon, Harrie A. A.; Meijdam, Lex - 2004

In this paper we model the demand for immigrants as a trade-off native voters face between having services, produced by unskilled and non-assimilated immigrants, and experiencing disutility due to the immigrant workers having a culture different from the native culture. Immigrants decide whether...

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