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Alcala, Luis.

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Immigration, income inequality, and population dynamics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Immigration, income inequality, and population dynamics./
Author:	Alcala, Luis.
Description:	104 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Mark Bils.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3230287
ISBN:	9780542846373

Immigration, income inequality, and population dynamics.
Alcala, Luis.

Immigration, income inequality, and population dynamics. - 104 p.

Adviser: Mark Bils.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Rochester, 2006.

This dissertation is divided into three parts. Chapter 1 presents the main theoretical and empirical issues that relate immigration with economic inequality and the demographic structure. It also summarizes the contribution made to the literature by the models developed in the following chapters.

ISBN: 9780542846373Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Immigration, income inequality, and population dynamics.
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520 $a This dissertation is divided into three parts. Chapter 1 presents the main theoretical and empirical issues that relate immigration with economic inequality and the demographic structure. It also summarizes the contribution made to the literature by the models developed in the following chapters.
520 $a The second chapter proposes a model to understand why individuals with different skills move from poor to rich countries or regions. A simple theory of factor proportions suggests that factors of production tend to move where they are relatively scarce. Developing countries are presumably scarce in skills. Then, this theory to explain why high-skilled individuals constitute a large group of immigrants to developed economies and, at the same time, returns to skills are high in their source countries. The standard model is extended to include technological differences across countries in order to reconcile these facts. As a result, the process of technical change originated in developed economies together with the adoption of new technologies by less developed countries, which include the existence of significant barriers arising mainly from the institutional and political environment, are critical factors to generate mobility of agents of various skill levels.
520 $a International immigration has also played a major role in shaping the U.S. demographic structure during the last century, despite the heavy barriers limiting labor mobility across countries. In Chapter 3 I develop a two-country dynamic overlapping generations model where agents respond to such barriers by investing real resources and competing for the scarce opportunities to migrate. A key implication of this mechanism is that moving costs and the selection of immigrants are endogenous. The model is able to replicate the observed features of immigrant earnings, their relative position in the income distribution, and the degree of income mobility across generations. Two policy experiments are analyzed: changing the levels of current immigration quotas and auctioning visas. The model predicts that relaxing immigration quotas causes only minor effects on the skill composition of immigrants and their performance in the host economy. Another suggestive result is that a market mechanism does not necessarily improve immigrant selection in the long-run.
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