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Auctioning Immigration Visas

David Collie

No E2007/25, Cardiff Economics Working Papers from Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section

Abstract: Freeman (2006) suggested that auctioning immigration visas and redistributing the revenue to native residents in the host country would increase migration from low-income to high-income countries. The effect of the auctioning of immigration visas, in the Ricardian model from Findlay (1982), on the optimal level of immigration for the host country is considered. It is shown that auctioning immigration visas will lead to a positive level of immigration only if the initial wage difference between the host country and the source country is substantial. The cost of the immigration visa is more than half the earnings of the immigrant worker.

Keywords: Immigration; migration; international trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published in Review of Development Economics , Vol. 13, 2009, pp. 687-694.

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