Immigration policy and self-selecting migrants

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We explore the implications of migrants' self-selection for the determination of immigration policy in a simple model where incentives and resources to migrate vary with skills. We show how self-selection determines the response of potential migrants to immigration policy changes, which is crucial for predicting the effects of such policy in the receiving country. For example, restricting immigration when it is low skilled may worsen self-selection and thus the receiving country skill distribution. These selection effects may lead low skilled natives to support a more restrictive policy even though current immigrants are not harmful for them, and the receiving country government to impose significant restrictions even in a purely utilitarian world.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance ; No. 627

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; International Migration ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Development Planning and Policy: Trade Policy; Factor Movement; Foreign Exchange Policy
• Thema: Immigrant self-selection ; immigration policy preferences ; political economy of immigration ; Public Choice ; Internationale Wanderung ; Einwanderung ; Migrationspolitik ; Theorie ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bianchi, Milo
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Stockholm School of Economics, The Economic Research Institute (EFI)
• (wo): Stockholm
• (wann): 2006

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/56193
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ