ECIN Replication package for "On the Design of an Optimal Immigration Policy"

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Armando Lopez-Velasco, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Version:  View help for Version V1

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  EXCEL-and-STATA 09/16/2024 02:30:PM
  Matlab-Codes 09/16/2024 02:20:PM
Read_Me_Final.pdf application/pdf 33.4 KB 09/16/2024 10:32:AM

Project Citation: 

Lopez-Velasco, Armando. ECIN Replication package for “On the Design of an Optimal Immigration Policy.” Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-09-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E209148V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This replication package contains all of the Matlab codes and data for Stata for the paper "On the Design of an Optimal Immigration Policy". Please first read the file "Read_Me_Final.pdf".

Paper Abstract. This paper constructs a model for the study of optimal immigration from the perspective of natives. They have preferences over redistributive transfers, a public good subject to congestion, and over the level of family-based migration. Border enforcement is costly. The model derives conditions for an optimal immigration policy, which balances skill-based against family-based migration, equalizes the fiscal opportunity cost of unauthorized immigration with the marginal cost of enforcement, and balances the effects on transfers against the implied congestion effects. A parameterized version of the model studies the 1994-2008 period and finds legislation projects on immigration consistent with the model's predictions.

Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources The Center for Growth and Opportunity (Working paper on optimal immigration policy design)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms Immigration Policy; Optimal Immigration; Unauthorized Migration; Family Migration; Skilled Migration
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      E61 Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
      F22 International Migration
      H20 Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
      J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Manuscript Number:  View help for Manuscript Number ECIN-Aug-2022-0350.R2
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) program source code


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