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Who Opposes Immigrants' Integration into the Labor Market? The Swiss Case
Müller, Tobias; Tai, Silvio H. T. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 741-767
-worker system is preferred to a non-discriminatory immigration regime and why measures to improve the integration of low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011933252
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Political Economy of Immigration and Fiscal Sustainability
Hur, Jinwook - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 44 (2022) 1, pp. 1-47
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes … and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … argue that relaxing immigration policies can substitute for tax reforms in an aging economy, I show that the democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174507
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Political economy of immigration and fiscal sustainability
Hur, Jinwook - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 44 (2022) 1, pp. 1-47
This paper introduces a politico-economic model with a welfare state and immigration. In this model, policies on taxes … and immigration are determined through a plurality voting system. While many studies of fiscal implications of immigration … argue that relaxing immigration policies can substitute for tax reforms in an aging economy, I show that the democratic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169281
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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014
How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by fi…rms. Estimating a binary choice model of …firm behavior, we fi…nd signifi…cant evidence for the idea that barriers to entry induce persistence in lobbying. The existence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744596
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The Role of Turkish Immigrants in Entrepreneurial Activities in Germany
Constant, Amelie; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2005
This paper addresses a central issue to migration the role of immigrants in entrepreneurial activity. In particular, the paper focuses on the determinants of the decision to become an entrepreneur for Turks living in Germany. The paper provides some important benchmarks, including the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150190
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Negative selectivity of Europe’s guest-worker immigration?
Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
establishing themselves and their children in comparison with immigrants in the traditional immigration countries, like the USA. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536052
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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014
We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398737
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Bitterness in life and attitudes towards immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387390
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Does labor protection increase support for immigration? : evidence from Switzerland
Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021
What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652730
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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu; Steinhardt, Max - 2015
provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388283