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...

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Autor principal: Mishra, Prachi
Outros Autores: Facchini, Giovanni, Mayda, Anna Maria
Formato: Periódico
Idioma:English
Publicado em: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
coleção:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/244
Acesso em linha:Full text available on IMF
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