• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Strategic Immigration Policies and Welfare in Heterogeneous Countries
  • Contributor: Fujita, Masahisa [Author]; Weber, Shlomo [Author]
  • Published: Milano: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), 2004
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: O3 ; Theorie ; Industrieländer ; Nichtkooperatives Spiel ; R1 ; C72 ; F22 ; Immigration quotas ; Migrationspolitik ; Wohlfahrtsanalyse ; Policy Harmonisation ; Heterogeneity ; Production complementarity ; Welfare
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  • Description: In this paper we consider a model with two industrialised countries and immigrants that come from “the rest of the world”. The countries are distinguished on the basis of three parameters: population size, bias towards immigrants, and production complementarity between native population and immigrants. We consider a non-cooperative game where each country makes a strategic choice of its immigration quotas. We first show that our game admits a unique pure strategy Nash equilibrium and then study the welfare implications of countries' choices. It turns out that a county with a higher degree of production complementarity and a higher level of tolerance towards immigrants would allow a larger immigration quota and achieve a higher welfare level. Our results call for coordinated and harmonised immigration policies that may improve the welfare of both countries.
  • Access State: Open Access