Immigration Restriction.

Preferences for Immigration Restriction and Opinions about Immigrants’ Economic Impacts

We investigate the importance of citizens’ opinions about economic impacts of immigration in their countries to their preferences for immigration restriction. We focus on personal views regarding how immigrants would affect the national labour market and the domestic public finance. Our analysis of survey data from 7 EU countries during the period 2002-2003 suggests that personal opinions about...

National Security and Immigration

This paper considers the relationship between economic factors and national security. While considering a broad number of issue areas, the principal theme of the course is the way in which economic factors (as immigration) fundamentally influence the national security of the region, and the way in which those factors shape and constrain the strategies chosen to pursue that security. South-South...

The Disadvantages of Immigration Restriction as a Policy to Improve Income Distribution

In this Article, I argue that tax and tran~fer policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the aftertax incomes of the least skilled native workers. Policies to protect these native workers frol1'l immigrant competition in the labor nwrket do no better at promoting distributive justice and are likely to impose a greater economic burden on natives in the ...

Immigration Restriction as Redistributive Taxation: Working Women and the Costs of Protectionism in the Labor Market

In this article, I argue that tax and transfer policies are more efficient than immigration restrictions as instruments for raising the after-tax incomes of the least skilled native workers. Policies to protect these native workers from immigrant competition in the labor market are no better at promoting distributive justice and are likely to impose a greater economic burden on natives in the c...

Immigration Policy and Immigration Flows: A Comparative Analysis of Immigration Law in the U.S. and Argentina