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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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:
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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.
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:
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The Center for Growth and Opportunity (Working paper on optimal immigration policy design)
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Immigration Policy;
Optimal Immigration;
Unauthorized Migration;
Family Migration;
Skilled Migration
JEL Classification:
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E61 Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
F22 International Migration
H20 Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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:
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ECIN-Aug-2022-0350.R2
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