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 anyimmigration policy can be decomposed into a size and a compositioneffect. We then explore how the optimal policy may change once thelatter effect is considered.

Mots clés: immigration policy; Immigrant self-selection

Domaines: Gestion et management

Milo Bianchi. Immigration Policy and Self-Selecting Migrants. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2013, 15 (1), ⟨10.1111/jpet.12007⟩. ⟨hal-01629740⟩