We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …

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 …

Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … expected between native actors that favor and disfavor further immigration, improving European immigration policies and …

Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and … evidence from the history of U.S. immigration policy, the experiences of different types of U.S. immigrants, and cross …

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by … providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in … the second part of the chapter, we provide a survey of the large and growing literature on the recent European immigration …