The emergence of new tools and mechanisms whereby governments enable and assist collective action on behalf of societal goals and community interests has led many scholars to claim that governance in economically-advanced democracies is being transformed. The boundaries between the state and...

We analyze the effects of foreign nurse immigration on the occupational choice of natives and the quality of native entrants into the nursing sector. Using an empirical strategy that exploits large geographical differences in the distribution of foreign nurses across US states, we find that, in...