Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants

Milo Bianchi

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Abstract: We build a simple model of self-selection into migration and immigration policy determination. We first show that the effect of anyimmigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a compositioneffect. We then explore how the optimal policy may change once thelatter effect is considered.

Keywords: immigration policy; Immigrant self-selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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Published in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15 (1), ⟨10.1111/jpet.12007⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12007

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