The political economy of immigration quotas

Oscar Flores

Atlantic Economic Journal, 1997, vol. 25, issue 1, 50-59

Abstract: It is argued, using a single-sector general equilibrium model, that the economic interests of citizens of a host country in relation to immigration depend on their factor ownership. Using the median voter model, it is argued that whether a country admits further immigration depends on the country's factor ownership distributions, the generosity of its transfer programs, as well as on the prejudices about immigrants that its citizens hold. Copyright International Atlantic Economic Society 1997

Date: 1997
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