We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of … immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why …. We start from the "standard" view that immigration triggers political backlash and raises support for nativist, anti …

decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the performance of migrants in the host society and the impact of migrants on …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area …

immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …

their own visa path, and there are not strong reasons why a loosening of restrictions on employment migrants need be … accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …

This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …

successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular. -- welfare ; immigration …