Causes of discontent -- The costs and benefits of restricting immigration -- Is America's immigration system broken …? -- From global to local : towards integration or exclusion? -- The balance sheet : economic costs and benefits of immigration … -- Refugees and discontent -- Crime, terrorism and immigration -- Addressing the discontent …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue …-skill immigration. I formalise this hypothesis theoretically in a partial equilibrium model with constant elasticity of substitution in … which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …