Canada has a long history of welcoming immigrants and a longstanding immigration policy framework. The historic principles that govern immigration selection and processing also include regulatory policies in the area of health. Based on historical principles that pre-date Confederation, Canadian immigration health policy has remained relatively constant. Policies are based on the identification...

National data indicate that U.S. whites have a higher prevalence of smoking compared to non-whites. Group position theory and public opinion data suggest racial differences in immigration concern. This study examines whether immigration concern mediates the racial difference in smoking. Drawing on the 2012 General Social Survey, the 2012 American National Election Study, and the 2006 Portraits ...

Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent source of anti-immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or lessskilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward immigration available from the 2003...

ABSORBING LOCAL SHOCKS IN LABOR SUPPLY Immigration to the U.S. in recent decades has been substantial and geographically concentrated. Nevertheless, research consistently finds little evidence that it has a major impact on the wages and employment rates of the native population in areas where immigrants settle. Though some recent evidence suggests that immigration may depress wages nationally, ...

There are large differences in immigration (per capita) levels among rich OECD countries. In addition these differences are unrelated to the respective levels of income per capita and display a large persistence over time. Existing economic theories of immigration cannot explain these facts. This paper presents a dynamic political-economy model of immigration where agents choose an immigration ...

The study of labor flows across labor markets is a central ingredient in any discussion of labor market equilibrium. These labor flows help markets reach a more efficient allocation of resources. This paper surveys the economic analysis of immigration. It investigates the determinants of the immigration decision by workers in source countries and the impact of that decision on the host country'...

Objective. We apply economic theories of news to explain differences between Englishand Spanish-language newspaper coverage of immigration. Methods. Using content analysis and contextual data, we examine newspaper coverage of immigration as a function of economic incentives of news organizations and the language of the newspaper outlet. Results. The results indicate that Spanish-language news o...

This paper uses three years of individual-level data to analyze the determinants of individual preferences over immigration policy in the United States. We have two main empirical results. First, less-skilled workers are signiŽ cantly more likely to prefer limiting immigrant in ows into the United States. Our Ž nding suggests that, over the time horizons that are relevant to individuals when e...

This study explores immigration reform as a possible new “moral” issue upon which American religious elites and organizations take public positions. It is argued that religion is a key independent variable necessary for understanding the determinants of public attitudes regarding immigration policy. Theoretical expectations are formed from the ethnoreligious, religious restructuralism, and mino...