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 …

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

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 …

This paper estimates the quarterly flow of migrants to the US working age population using data based on the Current … Population Survey (CPS). The dynamic responses to immigration shocks are estimated in a vector autoregression. Immigration shocks …, as well as technology shocks are identified through long-run restrictions. The responses to immigration shocks are …

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

diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I … the 19th and 20th centuries. -- immigration ; education …