We develop a dynamic politico-economic theory of welfare state and immigration policies, featuring three groups of …

Skilled immigration restrictions may have secondary consequences that have been largely overlooked in the immigration … comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity, I find that restrictions on H-1B immigration caused foreign affiliate …

research teams participated in an experiment. After being surveyed about their position on immigration policy, they used the … same data to answer the same well-defined empirical question: Does immigration affect the level of public support for … the measured impact ranging from strongly negative to strongly positive. We find that research teams composed of pro-immigration …

In the absence of distortionary tax and spending policies, freer immigration and trade for a country would often be …, can do neither of these. This suggests quite different political coalitions may organize around trade and immigration. In … strategies and also fiscal jurisdictions. We then apply this framework to the case of individual immigration and trade …

In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …