Immigration Policy and the Welfare State

A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Edited by Tito Boeri, Gordon H. Hanson, and Barry McCormick

Immigration Policy and the Welfare State

A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Edited by Tito Boeri, Gordon H. Hanson, and Barry McCormick

Description

This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analyzed, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents.

Immigration Policy and the Welfare State

A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Edited by Tito Boeri, Gordon H. Hanson, and Barry McCormick

Preface. Breaking a European Vicious Circle, Tito Boeri
Part I: Managing Migration in the European Welfare State Herbert Brücker, Gil S. Epstein, Barry McCormick, Gilles Saint-Paul, Alessandra Venturini, and Klaus Zimmermann
1. Immigration and the EU
2. European Immigration Policy and the Selection of Immigrants
3. Welfare State Provision
4. Immigration and the Extension of Free Movement to Eastern Europe
5. European Attitudes Towards Immigrants
6. Contracted Temporary Migration
7. Managing European Migration
Comments, Michael Burda and Riccardo Faini
Part II: Immigration and the US Economy: Labour-Market Impacts, Illegal Entry, and Policy Choices Gordon Hanson, Kenneth Scheve, Matthew Slaughter, and Antonio Spilimbergo
8. Introduction
9. Immigration and Immigration Policy in the United States
10. How Do Economies Adjust to Immigration Inflows?
11. Illegal Immigration
12. Fiscal Impacts of Immigration
13. The Political Economy of Immigration Policy
14. Conclusion
Comments, Giuseppe Bertola and George Borjas
Final Remarks, Olivier Blanchard, Dani Rodrik, and Giovanni Sartori

Immigration Policy and the Welfare State

A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

Edited by Tito Boeri, Gordon H. Hanson, and Barry McCormick

Author Information

Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and is affiliated with the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). He is Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti operating in the field of labour market and social policy reforms in Europe. He is a research fellow at CEPR and at the University of Michigan Business School. Gordon H. Hanson is Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research and on the Board of Editors for the American Economic Review and the Journal of International Economics. Barry McCormick has been Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton since 1991. His research is in labour economics, including labour markets in less developed countries. He is a part-time consultant for the UK Treasury on Regional Policy.

Contributors:

Giuseppe Bertola (European University Institute)
Olivier Blanchard (MIT)
Tito Boeri (Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, Milan; Bocconi University, Milan)
George Borjas (Harvard University)
Herbert Brücker (DIW, Berlin)
Michael Burda (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Gil S. Epstein (Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv)
The Late Riccardo Faini (Italian Ministry of Economics and Financial Affairs)
Gordon Hanson (University of California, San Diego)
Barry McCormick (University of Southampton)
Dani Rodrik (Harvard University)
Gilles Saint-Paul (University of Toulouse)
Giovanni Sartori (Columbia University, New York)
Kenneth Scheve (Yale University)
Matthew Slaughter (Dartmouth College, Hannover, New Hampshire)
Antonio Spilimbergo (IMF, Washington DC)
Alessandra Venturini (University of Padua)
Klaus Zimmermann (IZA, Bonn; DIW, Berlin)