Voting on Immigration Restriction¤

We study how immigration policies are determined in a model where immigration raises capital income and lowers wages, migration decisions are endogenous and there exists preference for home-country consumption. We model migration policy as a pure entry rationing rather than a complicated screening system, and the vote as a Stack-elberg game. Our …ndings show that the most likely result is a polar-ization between voters who prefer total frontiers openness and voters who prefer perfect frontier closure. The actual choice depends on which group the median voter belongs to