Nottingham Centre for Research on
Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)

GEP Research Paper 01/36

Normative Migration Theory: A Social Choice Theoretic Approach

D. Nelson and Y. Xu

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide a normative analysis of some migration issues. Our main objective is to develop a social-choice theoretical framework to evaluate alternative immigration policies of a country. For illustrative purposes, we present some simple results that are characterizations of some policy evaluation functions that have some specific features.

Issued in February 2002.

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