In this paper I share my thoughts on immigration policy. As a social scientist it is appropriate to assess the … consequences, the costs and benefits, of alternative immigration policies. The policies that a country adopts regarding immigration … research. What follows is a non-technical discussion of what I see as some of the key issues regarding immigration policies …

. 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 …

'The economics of immigration literature has grown in the last decade to reflect the complexity of economic issues … University, Canada. This essential collection brings together the most important papers covering the wide range of themes within … between 2000 and 2011, by leading academics which analyse immigration issues among the major destination countries across the …