immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures 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 …

explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the … investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use …). First, we find that educational attainment and language proficiency have a higher return in the Netherlands than in Germany …

we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …

large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important … Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second …

considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …