economy behind the evolution of immigration policy. We provide an historical context for current debates on immigration and … immigration policy and we conclude by speculating on future trends. …

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger … the slump and immigration policy. First, although immigration flows have responded to the slump, and immigrants have borne … recession for Europe as a whole, attitudes to immigration have not changed very much, and they have been influenced more by …

Today's labor-scarce economies have open trade and closed immigration policies, while a century ago they had just the … opposite, open immigration and closed trade policies. Why the inverse policy correlation, and why has it persisted for almost … in the net fiscal impact of trade relative to immigration, and changes in the median voter. The paper also offers …

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th … century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before …

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 … immigration opinion for 20 countries. The recession that began in 2008 provides a useful test because its severity varied so …

immigrants should depend not just on their own characteristics, but also on the legacy of past immigration from the same country … that history matters in immigrant assimilation: the stronger is the tradition of immigration from a given source country …