Immigration reform and the West

Federal Reserve District, 12th ; Emigration and immigration ; Labor market ; Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Undocumented workers and regional differences in apparel labor markets

Clothing trade ; Textile industry ; Labor market ; Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 ; California ; Emigration and immigration

International Migration of Labour and Skilled-Unskilled Wage Inequality

The present note develops a three sector general equilibrium structure with diverse trade pattern and imperfection in the unskilled labour market to analyze the consequences of international mobility of skilled and unskilled labour on the skilled-unskilled wage inequality in the developing economies. The analysis finds that an emigration (immigration) of either type of labour is likely to produce a favourable (an unfavourable) effect on the wage inequality. In particular, the result of emigration (immigration) of skilled labour on the relative wage inequality is counterintuitive. These results have important policy implications for an overpopulated developing country like India.Skilled labour, unskilled labour, wage inequality, emigration (immigration) of labour, labour market imperfection, diverse trade pattern

On the political economy of immigration

Emigration and immigration

The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database of migrant stocks, grouped by education level and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much higher international mobility of college graduates, relative to all other individuals, we find that net migration flows are college-intensive, relative to the population of non-migrants. Using the consensus aggregate model of labor demand and supply we simulate the long-run employment and wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased or left the average native wages unchanged and had a positive or no effect on native employment. To the contrary, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country inequality in all OECD countries. These results still hold true when we correct for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, for the skill-downgrading of immigrants, when we focus on immigration from non-OECD countries, and when we consider preliminary measures of more recent immigration flows for the period 2000-2007.immigration and emigration, complementarity, schooling externalities, average wage, wage inequality

Remittances, lagged dependent variables and migration stocks as determinants of migration from developing countries

In regressions for net immigration flows of developing countries we show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible until a certain value, beyond which the opposite holds; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows have a negative sign even in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) migration stocks have S-shaped effects: at sufficiently low values higher migration stocks support emigration; beyond a threshold value they support net immigration before they possibly support emigration again after a second threshold value.migration, remittances

Managing migration: the Brazilian case

The objective of this paper is to present the Brazilian migration experience and its relationship with migration management. The article is divided into three parts. First, it reviews some basic facts regarding Brazilian immigration and emigration processes. Second, it focuses on some policy and legal issues related to migration. Finally, it addresses five issues regarding migration management in Brazil.international migration, immigration, emigration, migration management, migration policies, migration laws, Brazil

Hispanics play different role in District's growth than in nation's

Hispanic Americans ; Emigration and immigration

On the political economy of immigration and income redistribution

Emigration and immigration ; Income distribution

The second great migration: economic and policy implications

Emigration and immigration ; Employment (Economic theory)