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Is There Too Little Immigration?

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Subhayu Bandyopadhyay () (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and IZA)
Howard J. Wall () (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

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This paper presents a model of legal migration from one source country to two host countries, both of which can control their levels of immigration. Because of complementarities between capital and labor, the return on capital is positively related to the level of immigration. Consequently, when capital is immobile, host nations’ optimal levels of immigration are positively related to their capital endowments. Further, when capital is mobile between the two host nations, the common return on capital is a function of the levels of immigration in both countries, meaning that immigration is a public good. As a result, when immigration imposes costs on host countries, the Nash equilibrium results in free riding and less immigration than would occur in the cooperative equilibrium. These results are qualitatively unaltered when capital mobility extends to the source nation.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 2825.

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Keywords: immigration; free riding; externalities; capital mobility;

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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