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Do interest groups affect immigration?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2007
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model where migration policy is the result of the interaction between organized groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268468
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268876
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From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763623
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Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model where migration policy is the result of the interaction between organized groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761922
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What Remains after the Oil Boom Is Over?
Jelnov, Pavel - 2019
the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a … for men. The probability to be never-married decreases in the American oil-producing areas immediately after the shock …. This effect persists after the oil boom is over but longer for men than for women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006024
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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas
Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; Winters, John V. - 2019
This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across … gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed … outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men and women both gain employment in the oil and gas industry during booms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059079
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Too Much of a Good Thing: Accelerated Growth and Crime
Soares, Rodrigo R.; Souza, Danilo - 2023
We document that oil-producing areas of Brazil experienced increases in crime during the period of increased economic … growth driven by the 2000s oil boom. This challenges the understanding that the impact of income shocks on crime is driven … primarily by the legal status of the market in question. Offshore oil production, refining, and distribution in Brazil are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296746
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Health Insurance Benefit Mandates and the Firm-Size Distribution
Bailey, James; Webber, Douglas A. - 2015
By 2010, the average US state had passed 37 health insurance benefit mandates (laws requiring health insurance plans to cover certain additional services). Previous work has shown that these mandates likely increase health insurance premiums, which in turn could make it more costly for firms to...
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Special Interest Groups versus Voters and the Political Economics of Attention
Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018
Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984505
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The Struggle over Migration Policy
Epstein, Gil S.; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2005
In this paper we analyze the endogenous determination of migration quota viewing it as an outcome of a two-stage political struggle between two interest groups: those in favor and those against the proposed migration quota. We first compare the proposed policies of the two interest groups under...
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