The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo-Viner Model

Jaime de Melo, Müller, Tobias and Jean-Marie Grether
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Tobias Müller

No 2714, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Determinants of national policies towards immigration are analysed in the context of an economy open to international trade. Arguments for the existence of an ?immigration surplus? are reviewed and followed by an interpretative survey of the principal contributions of the political economy literature, emphasising the role of the determinants of individual preferences in a direct democracy framework. A median voter model is grafted on several variants of a specific-factor open-economy model to discuss several recent changes in attitudes towards immigration (a stiffened stance, especially towards the unskilled) and in national policies (?melting-pot? vs. guest-worker programs, coexistence of legal and illegal immigrants, lax enforcement towards illegals).

Keywords: Direct democracy; International migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-02
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Chapter: The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo–Viner Model (2015)
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