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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...
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We examine how the large, one-time legalization authorized by the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) has affected the scale and character of immigration to the U.S. since the late 1980s. Exploiting cross-country variation in the magnitude of the legalization shock, we find that each IRCA...
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Can history shed light on the modern debate about immigration's labor market impact in high wage economies? This paper examines the relationship between migration and capital flows in the age of mass migration before 1914, the so-called first global century. It then assesses the effects of...
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Over 12 million persons migrated to Canada or the United States between 1959 and 1981. Beginning in the mid?1960s, the immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and Canada stressing skills. This paper shows that the...
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Self-selection plays a dominant role in determining the size and composition of immigrant flows. The United States competes with other potential host countries in the "immigration market". Host countries vary in their "offers" of economic opportunities and also differ in the way they ration...
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business registry, we study a 2018 policy shift in Colombia that made nearly half a million Venezuelan undocumented migrants …
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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …
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The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves … and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities …. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic integration policy interventions focused on refugees and the evidence …
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probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … identification strategy to evaluate the causal effects of these types of policies on the assimilation of refugees in developed … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …
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We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …
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