This paper presents an empirical analysis of the effect of changes in immigration in region of residence on the likelihood of being a crime victim and on the subjective representation of criminality in local area of residence. To this purpose, the analysis exploits the recent immigration waves that took place in western European regions in the 2000s, using European Social Survey data matched wi...

In this paper we document a strong positive association between immigration and average wages and price of houses of native individuals across U.S. states and metropolitan areas over the period 1970-2005. Most of the existing literature, focussed on relative wage effects of immigration, missed these strong correlations. By constructing an instrumental variable that proxies the supply-driven com...

We use newly available micro data samples from the 1911, 1921, 1931 and 1941 Canadian Censuses to investigate the impact of immigration on the Canadian earnings distribution in the first half of the 20th Century. We show that earnings inequality increased dramatically between 1911 and 1941, with most of the change occurring in the 1920s. This coincided with two of largest immigration decades in...

Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration Hostility towards minorities may sometimes have economic rather than racial motives. Labour market fears, or concerns about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populat...

Most studies about the labor market impact of immigration limit their analysis to the adult native population. This paper shows that teen employment is signi…cantly more responsive than adult employment to immigration, and that growth in low-skilled immigration appears to be an important cause of recent declines in teen employment rates. Using variation in immigrant shares across metropolitan a...

Weprovide a simple set of sufficient conditions for theweak convergence of discrete-time, discrete-state Galton–Watson branching processes with immigration to continuous-time, continuous-state branching processes with immigration.

Why is Europe so critical of GMO crops? As long as it is cheaper to import food than to produce it locally, Western European countries have no need for GMO crops. Where it does matter is Africa. In my scientific opinion, GMO food is safe to eat, GMO crops can increase yield and, when used wisely, are good for the environment. Unfortunately, scientists are helpless in the emotional and political...

We provide a simple set of sufficient conditions for the weak convergence of discrete Galton-Watson branching processes with immigration to continuous time and continuous state branching processes with immigration. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 60J80

The plenary power doctrine sharply limits the judiciary’s power to police immigration regulation—a fact that has preoccupied immigration law scholars for decades. But scholars’ persistent focus on the distribution of power between the courts and the political branches has obscured a second important separation-of-powers question: how is immigration authority distributed between the political br...