title: Entry charges on immigrants.
abstract: The author analyzes "the various arguments that can be advanced for imposing fees on immigrants to optimize...resident gains.... This article discusses cost recovery and emphasizes the costs of multiculturalism as a possible basis for fees.  It then analyzes the effects of inelastic immigrant supplies in providing an optimal tariff motivation for monopsonistically restricting labor flows and deals with the second-best problem of devising an optimal fee policy to accompany a possibly suboptimal immigration quota.  Next, attention turns to the role of priceable externalities.  Externalities which are expensive to price because of transactions costs are analyzed.  Finally, along with summarization of major conclusions, the author considers if, even in the economic interests of existing residents, entry rights should be sold."
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Clarke
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005249:Fees and Charges; D005376:Financial Management; D006280:Health Workforce; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Fees; Financial Activities; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Migrant Workers; Migrants--cost; Migration; Migration Policy; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy; World