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 …

We propose a novel approach to measure the dynamic macroeconomic effects of immigration on the destination country …, combining the analysis of episodes of large immigration waves with instrumental variables techniques. We distinguish the impact … of immigration shocks in OECD countries from that of refugee immigration in emerging and developing economies. In OECD …

country. Household survey data indicates that recent decades of high output growth also witnessed a substantial narrowing of …

two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …

-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence …