Although immigration reform has proved elusive for more than forty years, presidents from both parties have issued crucial executive actions that regulate inflows of new immigrants and the status of those already in the US. We focus on a particular class of executive actions, those related to...

Political economy accounts of economic integration strongly emphasize the importance of legal contract enforcement. We challenge extant research by showing that relational contracting, relationship-based contract enforcement, is more efficient for high-risk, human capital-intensive activities...

The effects of immigration policies on immigration rates have hardly been investigated so far as we lacked the necessary data. For the first time two new datasets are combined in this paper to systematically measure immigration policies and dyadic migration flows for 32 destination countries...