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In the Fed's recent examination of the differential recovery in the US as compared to the Euro area, UK and Canada, I was surprised that immigration did not make a bigger appearance, given my views. The KC Fed has just provided some insights into how immigration helped increase slack in the labor market (h/t Torsten […]

In public opinion polls, one of the primary concerns about rising levels of immigration is the extent to which it might increase crime rates. But several puzzles arise here. The evidence that immigration systematically leads to an increase in local crime rates turns out to be meager. However, Olivier Marie and Paolo Pinotti explore these … Continue reading Puzzles about Immigration and Crime
The post Puzzles about Immigration and Crime first appeared on Conversable Economist.

If Texas is right to argue that illegal immigration and cross-border drug smuggling qualify as "invasion," then the writ of habeas corpus can be suspended at any time - thereby enabling executive detention without trial.

ThemeSpain combines high levels of immigration with high unemployment rates and insufficient growth in per capita GDP. SummarySince the start of the 21st century, Spain's population has grown by eight million, with the total population increasing from 40 to 48 million, a rise of 20%, double the growth rate experienced by the other countries that […]
La entrada Immigration, employment, productivity and inequality in Spain se publicó primero en Elcano Royal Institute.

The collapse in February of the Senate's bipartisan immigration compromise is bad news for the economy as a whole and particularly unfortunate for the health sector, which relies heavily on a labor force filled partly by immigrants.
The post Immigration and the Health Care Workforce appeared first on American Enterprise Institute - AEI.

Russia has done surprisingly little to impede emigration following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While this is explained by reluctance to provoke domestic opposition to the war, military calculations might affect this rationale as the conflict drags on.

Libertarians believe more legal immigration would benefit the United States, the sending countries, and the immigrants.

Or, why has the US done so well. Part of it's immigration. From Goldman Sachs "Upgrading Our GDP and Payrolls Forecasts to Reflect Elevated Immigration (Walker)" released yesterday: Recent studies suggest that Census data used for the household survey of the employment report understated immigration in 2023. We estimate that immigration was 1½mn above the […]

It is important, when considering immigration into the UK, to distinguish between migrants who come here to improve their lot in life and asylum seekers, who come to escape civil war or persecution in their home countries.Some who cross the channel and enter illegally are not asylum seekers, with a high proportion being economic migrants. They already have asylum in France. 45,755 crossed the channel in dinghies in 2022 and were not immediately returned. The system allows lawyers to tell people to claim they were trafficked in order to claim to be asylum seekers instead of the economic migrants they actually are.The UK has lost control of its borders, while qualified and skilled would-be legal immigrants face daunting costs, paperwork and delays. The two issues both have to be addressed if the problem is to be resolved.        For skilled personnel and those with jobs waiting in the UK, the solution is to auction visas that would allow them to come and settle and work. The visas would be paid for, not by the applicants, but by the firms wishing to employ them, and the auction process would ensure that those admitted would be the ones who would add the highest value to the British economy. This could be streamlined, with offices in the countries from which applicants sought to come to the UK. The UK could decide the overall numbers, and then have British and international firms bidding for the numbers they wanted to employ here.Several countries, including the US and some EU members, make business (or 'golden') visas available, sometimes with a fast track to citizenship, for those who invest a minimum sum or who purchase a requisite amount of property in the country. This ensures that the recipients will be net economic contributors to the countries they apply to. The UK should establish a similar scheme for foreign nationals prepared to invest here.For those who are crossing the channel in small boats, the policy should be to make it clear that those who enter the country illegally will not be allowed to stay. It must be resolved by Parliament that no international or European court will interfere with this determination. Instead of being housed in hotels or barges or other temporary accommodation, they should be immediately deported with no process that will prevent this. Australia and Denmark have used versions of this policy.Much more could and should be done to prevent them from coming in the first place. Just as people who buy used cars with cash are subject to surveillance in case terrorist use is planned, the UK, in cooperation with its European allies, should establish that purchasers of dinghies should be subject to surveillance to determine if they have any legitimate uses for them. It might be useful to have tracking devices incorporated into dinghies so that their movements can be tracked.Once it becomes more difficult for illegal crossings to be made, and there is certainty that none who do so will be allowed to stay, the UK will have reasserted control over its borders and will be able to process those applying to come here legitimately to take up jobs, or who are genuine asylum seekers, usually wishing to join relatives in the UK, and can be admitted as part of the UK's humanitarian contribution to a worldwide problem.

Climate change and socio-economic trends will make large-scale migrations inevitable in the coming decades.

Carrie L. Rosenbaum (Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law; UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Law and Society) has posted Arbitrary Arbitrariness Review (Denver Law Review, 100 Denv. L. Rev. 775 (2023)) on SSRN. Here is...

Russian history has produced a subgenre of poems and songs about emigration (something American history has fortunately been largely spared). I blogged in March about Yevgeniy Kliachkin's "Farewell to the Motherland," and I also like the great Bulat Okudzhava's poem that begins, How good it is that Zworykin left And invented television there If he…

One is an interview for the new Argue with Me podcast series, and the other is part of Michael Liebowitz's Rational Egoist series.

This week we ask: Do higher welfare benefits lead to higher immigration?

A new study shows deportation of undocumented migrants reduces housing construction by diminishing the supply of workers needed to do it.