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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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pressure for tougher immigration policies, governments have been constrained by the composition of immigration and by EU …
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applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached …, even from the point of view of EU citizens. Using an economic framework, it examines scenarios with different degrees of … policy harmonisation and integration among EU countries. Finally, it argues that there is an important role for enhanced …
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controversial issue. From the early 2000s the EU introduced a series of directives to prevent a race to the bottom in asylum … 2003 to 2017. The outcomes of the EU directives have been mixed, but taken together they are associated with increased … after accounting origin country composition and for differences in the adoption of EU directives. Some of this may be …
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There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...
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From 1860 to 1913 the six colonies that became states of Australia strove to attract migrants from the UK with a variety of assisted passages. The colonies/states shared a common culture and sought migrants from a common source, the UK, but set policy independently of each other. This experience...
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