Optimal Quota for Sector-Specific Immigration

Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, we derive a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, where natives require a compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration on three different gr...

Optimal collective dichotomous choice under quota constraints

This paper presents optimal collective dichotomous choices under quota constraints. We focus on committees that have to decide whether to accept or reject a set of projects under quota constraints. We provide a method for optimal ranking of projects which is suitable for solving this problem. The main result generalizes a number of earlier results in the subject. To outline the applicability of...

Optimal Quota in a Mixed Fairness Model1

We will analyze indirect weighted voting systems as the Council of the European Union and examine fair distributions of voting weights for the delegates, representing voting bodies of size n1, . . . , nm, applying a mixed fairness model. We will see that using a specific quota jointly with mixed voting weights yields a concordance of voting powers and voting weights. We will prove this result a...

Quota quandaries

Years of EU fishing catch restrictions have failed to stem the decline of many once abundant species in the northeast Atlantic and fishermen and conservationists are pressing for change.

Quota system for preventing whaling