Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48831 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2011-27
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the transition for the United States and Mexico. I find that: (i) the point system increases the average years of the immigrants by 3.5 years; (ii) the Mexican immigrants suffer a 10% reduction in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more significantly if the immigration policy is the point system and increases output per capita differences between both countries; (iv) the offspring of the immigrants invest more in human capital than the United States natives; (v) the earnings ratio immigrants to the United States natives is lower under the quota system than under the point system but along the transition it reverses converging at the steady state.
Subjects: 
Migration
self-selection
human capital
immigration policies
JEL: 
E20
F22
J61
O11
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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