revenue-increasing effect of a rise in tax rate. The migratory responses of foreigners and other age-education groups are even …

immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …

While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic … the total number of immigrants and H1B visas with data on lobbying expenditures associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …

immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … countries and other immigration targets. Both applications are seen as possible precursors to a full implementation of a TIQs …

Historical, longitudinal data are used to track the earnings of cohorts of immigrant and U.S.- born women over time …

xenophobic feelings towards foreigners in general, and against specific groups such as Italians and Turks. We also analyze racist …. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … for German males, and they are not fully driven by fears about foreigners taking away jobs. The results of the paper are …

(SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show: first, the fact that foreign women remit less money than foreign men can … be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized …