This paper examines how immigration affects native wages by exploiting an unexpected episode of immigrant influx. The … episode happened in Hong Kong, when its government unexpectedly relaxed the restriction on immigration from mainland China in …

This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …

in Complex/Non Complex task supply from natives and immigrants we find that immigration does not change much the relative …

In this paper, we investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the period since 1995 …

n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set … (colonial ties) attractors for immigration to deal with the possible distortions generated by the choice of the areal unit (the …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration in South Africa. In this … across schooling and experience groups used by Borjas (2003). We estimate that increased immigration has a negative effect on …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives’ employment rates – and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about what drives … exposure is significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income and ideology … entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …

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 …

immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …