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Individual attitudes towards skilled migration: an empirical analysis across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
It is commonly argued that skilled immigration benefits the destination country through several channels. Yet, only a small group of countries reports to have policies in place aimed at increasing the intake of skilled immigrants. Why? In this paper we analyze the factors that affect a direct...
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In democratic societies individual attitudes of voters represent the foundations of policy making. We start by 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...
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The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?
Hatton, Timothy - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008
In the last 20 years, developed countries have struggled with what seemed to be an ever rising tide of asylum seekers, a trend that has now gone into reverse. This paper examines what happened and why. How have oppression, violence and economic conditions in origin countries shaped worldwide...
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What Drives U.S. Immigration Policy? Evidence from Congressional Roll Call Votes
Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is one of the most hotly debated policy issues in the United States today. Despite marked divergence of opinions within political parties, several important immigration reforms were introduced in the post 1965 era. The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the drivers of...
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The Rise and Fall of Asylum: What Happened and Why?
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
In the last 20 years, developed countries have struggled with what seemed to be an ever-rising tide of asylum seekers, a trend that has now gone into reverse. This paper examines what happened and why. How have oppression, violence and economic conditions in origin countries shaped worldwide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114405
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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...
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Do Interest Groups Affect US Immigration Policy?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...
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The rhetoric of closed borders: quotas, lax enforcement and illegal migration
Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Despite restrictive migration policies, large numbers of undocumented migrants reside in many destination countries. If … with uncertainty on the migrants' supply, where an elected official can either have preferences congruent with the median … voter, or prefer a larger number of migrants. We show that, if the incumbent prefers more migrants than the median, he might …
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial: Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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