immigration
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What Are the Drivers of Anti-Immigration Sentiment?
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In Western countries, anti-immigration sentiment is becoming more and more widespread. In the United States, President Trump has issued executive orders imposing severe restrictions on arrivals, while in the European Union, the Syrian refugee crisis has sown division among member states. The free movement of persons may be at risk…
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Undocumented Immigration May Make Communities Safer
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The increase in undocumented immigration into the United States over the past two decades has fueled controversies about public safety impacts. President Trump has stated explicitly, both during his campaign and as president, that undocumented immigrants, specifically from Latin American countries, are “bringing drugs [and] crime” into the country, and that they…
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Comparing Immigration Policies Under the IMPALA Database
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A person’s decision to migrate is affected by various economic, political, and social factors not only in the country of origin (push factors), but also in the destination country (pull factors). More specifically, push factors are elements that cause people to leave their country of origin and pull factors attract…
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Immigration and Jobs: David Card’s Influential Study
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A chief concern of modern policy is the impact of immigrants on natives’ employment prospects. The difficulty for academics attempting to verify these effects is daunting. In the real world, immigrants arrive from and disperse throughout many areas, choosing cities with favorable labor market conditions. Meanwhile, large macroeconomic events also…
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Understanding the Impact of Immigration on Labor Markets: A Tale of Two Miamis
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In 2015, the United Nations estimated an international migrant population of 243 million people around the world. Immigration has been a recurrent phenomenon in many economies and prompts a continuous debate regarding its impact on socioeconomic indicators — particularly within the labor market. However, analyzing the effects of immigration on…
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Innovation, Skilled Immigrants, and Why We Need More of Them
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The immigration debate playing out in the United States is beleaguered by concerns over whether unskilled immigrant workers are undermining the economic position of low-skilled American citizens. But concern over low-skilled immigration may be overshadowing discussion of high-skilled immigration, a less controversial but arguably more impactful domain of immigration policy.…
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Immigrants Are Welcome Here: A Case Study of Immigration in Malaysia
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In the last year, immigration has captured political and economic debates in numerous countries. Some argue that immigrants displace citizens of the receiving country, while others claim that their tax contributions stimulate economic growth. In spite of these contradictory views, current nationalist movements have made immigration an issue permeated by…
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Economists Are Finding a New Perspective on Immigration
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As recently as twenty years ago, economists taught that as the supply of unskilled labor increased due to immigration, legal or otherwise, the wages and employment of natives would fall as the two groups competed for a fixed number of jobs. This perspective casts immigration as a potential threat to…
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Introducing Data to the Immigration Debate
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Illegal immigration is a tumultuous topic for the Obama administration, and continues to be a source of heated debate in the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Agency reports that illegal attempts to cross the Mexico–US border are increasing: In the first half of 2016, approximately…
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Patti Solis Doyle: A Latino Political Perspective
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Patti Solis Doyle, political strategist and former campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign, talks about Latino voters in the US and Chicago, and the 2016 presidential race.
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The Unintended Consequences of Border Patrol: How US Immigration Policy Backfired
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New research suggests that the policies of border security have ultimately backfired, leading to an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants.