Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of … opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of … this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …

the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth have changed substantially, with an increasing number of …

, firms statistically discriminate high-skilled migrants by paying them at their expected productivity. The decision of … whether to migrate or not depends on the proportion of high-skilled workers among the migrants. The migration game exhibits … migrants themselves. We also analyze under which conditions there is positive or negative self-selection of migrants. …

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing … studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In … immigration opinion for 20 countries. The recession that began in 2008 provides a useful test because its severity varied so …

This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big … migrants to current levels of local development – proxied by GDP per capita at county level in 2005 – while controlling for a … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …

-à-vis unskilled immigration. Still, important systematic differences exist: welfare state considerations and network effects have an … impact on the support for immigration liberalization, but not for trade; Democratic lawmakers are systematically more likely …

Destination countries have been resorting to selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. We propose a … model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at … destination. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on …

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly …

Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If … with uncertainty on the migrants' supply, where an elected official can either have preferences congruent with the median … voter, or prefer a larger number of migrants. We show that, if the incumbent prefers more migrants than the median, he might …