Should the US have locked heaven’s door?

Abstract

Immigration, Welfare, Computable general equilibrium, J61, I3, D58,

The welfare impact of global migration in OECD countries

“…Assuming a constant amount per person, we avoid large fiscal externalities linked to changes in population size. In line with Storesletten (2000) or Chojnicki et al (2011), public consumption does not directly affect utility or productivity.…”

“…Three channels of influence are taken into consideration in the benchmark model: the labor market effect, the fiscal effect, and changes in the mass of horizontally differentiated products available to consumers. We model the competitive labor market effect as in Docquier et al (2014), the fiscal effect as in Storesletten (2000) or Chojnicki et al (2011), and the market-size effect using the "love-ofvariety" model of Krugman (1980). The latter endogenizes the mass of varieties produced in a country as a function of the market size.…”

“…Public consumption and transfers are not taxed. Our fiscal bloc is a static version of Storesletten (2000) and Chojnicki et al (2011), except that we do not link pension benefits to wages and we rule out budget deficits.…”

“…These effects will be referred to as the fiscal effects of migration, henceforth. Studies of the fiscal impact of migration use accounting models with exogenous wages and prices, or general equilibrium models with simple labor market interactions (see Chojnicki, 2013, Chojnicki et al, 2011, Dustmann and Frattini, 2014, Dustmann et al, 2010, Storesletten, 2000. 6 Third, international migration affects the aggregate demand for goods and services in the receiving and sending countries.…”

Immigration trends’ impacts on state vocational rehabilitation agency minority application rates: An empirical forecast model demonstration study

“…Consequently, nearly every country around the globe has experienced a substantial refashioning of its demographic landscape (Pérez-Armendáriz, 2014;Perez & Hirschman, 2009;Uhlenberg, 2013). The United States (U.S.) is no exception to this phenomenon having experienced an exponentially high incidence of new immigrants from diverse corners of the world during two distinct periods: (a) the initial immigration wave that began in the middle of the nineteenth century and culminated in 1900 with almost nine million legal immigrants, and (b) the second wave that started 1950 and has not come to an end (Chojnicki, Docquier, & Ragot, 2011).…”