Illegal immigration has been the focus of much debate in receiving countries, but little is known about the drivers of … significantly correlated with public opinion on illegal immigration. Controlling for education, income, ideology, and other socio …, but cannot entirely explain the correlation between media exposure and attitudes about illegal immigration. …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

significantly increase – while the employment rates of neither native workers nor internal migrants change. …

, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

redistributive welfare system might adjust as a result of immigration. Under the first scenario, immigration has a larger impact on …-market determinants of immigration attitudes. In countries where natives are on average more skilled than immigrants, individual income is … negatively correlated with pro-immigration preferences, while individual skill is positively correlated with them. These …

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 …

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 …

We develop a general model of legal and illegal immigration to understand the basic tradeoffs faced by a government in … the decision to implement an immigration amnesty in the presence of a selective immigration policy. We show that two …

, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates – and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001, and 2007; we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …

, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates – and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …