Optimal Immigration Policy in the Face of Potential Radicalization

Alessandro Cigno, Alessandro Gioffré and Annalisa Luporini

No 12682, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We derive the immigration policy that maximizes the residents' expected welfare, taking into account the cost of keeping immigrants out, and the expected benefits of letting immigrants in, under different hypotheses concerning the risk that some of the immigrants' children will become radicalized. We find that a certain amount of immigration is generally optimal. If education directly or indirectly reduces the risk of radicalization, the optimal policy may include also an educational subsidy for the immigrants' children.

Keywords: migration; education; radicalization; integration. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I24 J61 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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