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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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| 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 |
| Sumario: | 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 with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically relevant role in shaping migration across sectors. Barriers to migration are lower in sectors in which business int. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (86 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781452728896 1452728895 |