Immigration policies, labor complementarities, population size and cultural frictions: Theory and evidence

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• 作者：Thomas Osang and Shlomo Weber
• 刊名：International Journal of Economic Theory
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：13
• 期：1
• 页码：95-111
• 全文大小：206K
• ISSN：1742-7363

文摘

In this paper we consider a model of international migration due to Fujita and Weber, with two heterogeneous countries, and show that in equilibrium the larger country attracts more immigrants, while choosing a lower quota. Moreover, a higher degree of labor complementarity and lower degree of cultural friction between natives and immigrants yield a higher immigration quota. We test the empirical validity of the model by using time-series country-level data. Even in the absence of direct evidence of strategic and non-cooperative choice of countries’ immigration quotas, both cross-section and panel data approaches indicate that cross-country immigration patterns are consistent with the majority of our theoretical findings.