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 …

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 …

Continental Europe, implemented between 1936 and 1975. We assess the causal effect of education on the number of biological … children and the incidence of childlessness. We find surprising results for Continental Europe: the additional education …

This paper presents a modified and improved methodology for the decomposition of wage differentials between two groups … of workers into an endowment component and a discrimination component. The standard decomposition technique does not take … into the wage differential decompositions, two statistical methodologies are merged: the Oaxaca methodology and the Heckman …

, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …

One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of … second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …

In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … immigration effect on unemployment duration. Within almost all subgroups there is a significant increase in the length of … unemployment spells as a result of increased immigration. Increased trade with Central and East European Countries (CEECs) seems to …

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 … market, welfare state, efficiency gains) using both the 1995 and 2003 rounds of the ISSP survey. The second part of the paper …