Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants

Milo Bianchi (1)

1 DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management

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

Mots clés: Immigrant self-selection; immigration policy.; immigration policy

Domaines: Economies et finances

Milo Bianchi. Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants. 2012. ⟨halshs-00670037⟩