postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …

. Little is known of what drives that growth. We propose that the expansion of interior immigration enforcement, a … characteristic of the U.S. immigration policy during that time span, might have contributed to this unique trend by pushing Mexican … immigrants into self-employment as an alternative livelihood. Exploiting temporal and geographic variation in immigration …

Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most … to immigration? This paper reports results from a large-scale experiment conducted in Japan, a country with widespread … anti-immigration sentiment. Embedded in a comprehension study, we randomly exposed a large national sample of citizens to …

experienced increased wages as a result of receiving amnesty through the 1986 Immigration and Reform Control Act during the 1990s …

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 congressional voting behavior on immigration policy during the …

Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates – and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of immigration. Under the first scenario, immigration has a larger impact on …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … negatively correlated with pro-immigration preferences, while individual skill is positively correlated with them. These …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

The Immigration Act of 1965 marked a dramatic shift in policy and one with major long term consequences for the volume … and composition of immigration to the United States. Here we explore the political economy of a reform that has been … overshadowed by the Civil Rights and Great Society programs. We find that public opinion was against expanding immigration, but it …