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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006

This paper analyzes welfare-state determinants of individual attitudes towards immigrants - within and across countries … through this channel. Individual attitudes are consistent with the first welfare-state scenario and with labor … results are confirmed when we exploit international differences in the characteristics of destination countries' welfare state. …

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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...

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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: theory and evidence

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2008

market, welfare state, efficiency gains) using both the 1995 and 2003 rounds of the ISSP survey. The second part of the paper …

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What drives US immigration policy? Evidence from congressional roll call votes

Facchini, Giovanni; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2011

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...

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Do Interest Groups affect US Immigration Policy?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2009

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work...

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Immigrant Franchise and Immigration Policy: Evidence from the Progressive Era

Biavaschi, Costanza; Facchini, Giovanni - 2020

question exploiting cross-state variation in U.S. citizens' access to the franchise, due to the presence of residency …

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Pork, Infrastructure and Growth: Evidence from the Italian Railway Expansion

Bonfatti, Roberto; Facchini, Giovanni; Tarasov, Alexander; … - 2021

-run growth patterns. Examining a large state-planned railway expansion that took place during the second half of the 19th century … construction. Exploiting close elections, we show that a state-funded railway line is more likely to be planned for construction …

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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - 2014

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...

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Do interest groups affect US immigration policy?

Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - In: Journal of international economics 85 (2011) 1, pp. 114-128

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The political economy of migration enforcement : domestic versus border control : migration policies

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 3/4, pp. 701-721

We study migration policy enforcement by an elected government. The policymaker faces uncertainty on the supply of migrants, but has more information than the public on its preferences and the extent and effectiveness of its enforcement activities. We show that a utilitarian government...

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