Arbeitspapier
Do Interest Groups affect US 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 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 interest groups incur larger lobby expenditures and higher in sectors where labor unions are more important.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 04/09
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Subject
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Immigration
Immigration Policy
Interest Groups
Political Economy
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Facchini, Giovanni
Mayda, Anna Maria
Mishra, Prachi
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
- (where)
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London
- (when)
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2009
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Facchini, Giovanni
- Mayda, Anna Maria
- Mishra, Prachi
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Time of origin
- 2009
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