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 …

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 …

Switzerland, whose system of determining tax rates primarily at the community level results in enough variation to permit analysis …

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician … decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can … majority of voters have different preferences over immigration. Empirical evidence provides strong support for our predictions …

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger … the slump and immigration policy. First, although immigration flows have responded to the slump, and immigrants have borne … recession for Europe as a whole, attitudes to immigration have not changed very much, and they have been influenced more by …

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants …

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by … with the degree of selectivity of immigration policies at destination. Empirical evidence presented as background …