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Immigration Policy and Self‐Selecting Migrants
Author(s) -
BIANCHI MILO
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of public economic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.809
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-9779
pISSN - 1097-3923
DOI - 10.1111/jpet.12007
Subject(s) - immigration , immigration policy , selection (genetic algorithm) , simple (philosophy) , demographic economics , economics , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , law , philosophy , epistemology
Abstract I build a simple model of self‐selection into migration and immigration policy determination. I first show that the effect of any immigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a composition effect. I then explore how the optimal policy may change once the latter effect is considered.