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Biavaschi, Costanza; Facchini, Giovanni - 2020

What is the role played by immigrant groups in shaping migration policy in the destination country? We address this question exploiting cross-state variation in U.S. citizens' access to the franchise, due to the presence of residency requirements. First we document that naturalized immigrants...

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Misrepresentation and migration

Kärnä, Anders; Öhberg, Patrik - 2022 - Revised May 2023

In a representative democracy politicians should either implement policies that voters want or policies that politicians believe are in voters long-term interest, even if voters currently oppose them. While the exact balance between these goals is debatable, politicians can also have strong...

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Immigrant franchise and immigration policy : evidence from the progressive era

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Blunt talk or faux outrage? : the politics of expanding migrant worker programs under Canada's former Conservative government : 2006-2015

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Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017

We examine the effect of changes in skilled-immigrant population shares in 98 Canadian cities between 1981 and 2006 on per capita patents. The Canadian case is of interest because its 'points system' for selecting immigrants is viewed as a model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates...

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Scholarship, the law and immigration policy

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2016

The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class action lawsuits in the Canadian context.

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Let a thousand flowers bloom : a short note on the multidimensional benefits of Chinese immigrants to Canada

DeVoretz, Don J. - 2020

on Canadians. The multidimensional positive impacts accruing to Canada from the increased arrival of Hong-Kong, Taiwanese … and PRC immigrants would be manifested in terms of the long term presence of highly educated immigrants increasing Canada …'s productivity which will in turn diversify Canada's trade patterns beyond Canada's current NAFTA/USMCA boundaries. Cultural …

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Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017

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Can skilled immigration raise innovation? : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - In: Journal of economic geography 20 (2020) 4, pp. 879-901

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