While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given … migration regime is inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict … immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made …

International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate global poverty. When a given host country … individuals and governments who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international migration regime is … inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its …

between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …, suggesting that immigration policies determine the sign and magnitude of the relationship between remittances and migrants …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using …

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs (‘immigration policy’ channel …Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect …

immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying … view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …

of 12 months or longer between 1 August 1999 and 31 July 2002, we track all subsequent moves of these migrants out of and … security eligibility and some other policy changes affecting New Zealand migrants to Australia, implemented between February … and June 2001. United Kingdom migrants to Australia, who were not affected by the policy changes, provide a "control group …

foreigners resided also in other advanced destination countries. Hence, attempts at controlling immigration flows seem to often … fail. If governments are not enforcing their "official" immigration policy, why do they set such a policy in the first … setting in which there is uncertainty on the supply of migrants, and the policy maker who faces elections can be of one of two …

Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … with the hypothesis that locals will provide more tips to the enforcement agency when unemployment is high, we find that …