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Do Interest Groups Affect U.S. Immigration Policy?
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no systematic empirical analysis of this issue. In this paper, we construct an industry-level dataset for the United States, by combining information on the number of temporary work visas w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington :
International Monetary Fund,
2008.
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| Colección: | IMF Working Papers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Literature; III. Migration Policy in the United States; 1. Number and Types of Non-Immigrant Visa Issuances, 2001-05; IV. Theoretical Framework; V. Data; A. Lobbying Expenditures; 2. Targeted Political Activity; 1. Scatter Plots Between Lobbying Expenditures and Campaign Contributions from Political Action Committees (PACs); B. Other Data; C. Summary Statistics; 2. Top 10 Spenders for Immigration, 2001-05; 3. Top 10 Sectors with the Highest Number of Visas, 2001-05.
- 4. Scatter Plot
- Lobbying Expenditures for Immigration and Number of Visas5. Scatter Plot
- Union Membership Rates and Number of Visas; 6. Scatter Plot
- Lobbying Expenditures for Immigration and Number of H1B Visas; 7. Scatter Plot
- Union Membership Rates and Number of H1B Visas; VI. Empirical Analysis; A. Main Results; 3. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, OLS; 4a. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, Instrumental Variables; 4b. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, Instrumental Variables
- First Stage; B. Additional Results.
- 5. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, Alternative Dependent Variables6. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, Alternative Measure of Lobbying Expenditures; 7. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration, Campaign Contributions from PAC vs Lobbying Expenditures; C. Robustness Checks; VII. Conclusions; Appendix; A1. The Effects of a Migration Quota; A1a. Summary Statistics; A1b. Summary Statistics (in levels); A2. List of Issues; A3. Sample Lobbying Report
- Morrison Public Affairs Group; A4. Sample Lobbying Report
- Microsoft Corporation.
- A5. List of CPS Industries (Census Bureau Classification)A6. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration OLS, Robustness Checks; A7. Estimated Effect of Politics on Migration OLS, Robustness Checks; References; Footnotes.