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United States immigration since the early 1970s. The model incorporates ratios of source country income, education, and … the stock of previous immigrants, and various controls for immigration quota policy. The model is estimated on a panel of … composition of U.S. immigration by source.This paper - a product of Investment Climate, Development Research Group - is part of a …

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs ("immigration policy" channel … illustration based on US immigration data by metropolitan area and country of origin. First, we show that the overall network …

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of regularization, i.e., European policies are becoming less tight …. Our aim here is to study these counterbalanced and opposite policies in European immigration legislation in a unified …

and their effects on wages and income distribution in source and destination countries; and the evolution of immigration …