While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model where migration policy is the … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find …

analyzing patterns in public opinion on migration and find that, across countries of different income levels, only a small … minority of voters favour more open migration policies. Next we investigate the determinants of voters' preferences towards … immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour …

acquiring a disability. We postulate a model in which this impact is mediated by the choice of occupation, with a level of risk … a representative sample of immigrants. We find that risk exposure increases the probability of permanent disability by 5 … both disability and the probability of being employed in a risky occupation. Most groups of immigrants work in riskier jobs …

identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most …

This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement … entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

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 …