Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA

Michel Beine, Brian Burgoon, Mary Crock, Justin Gest, Michael Hiscox, Patrick McGovern, Hillel Rapoport () and Eiko Thielemann

No 5109, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper presents the methods and preliminary findings from IMPALA, a database that systematically measures the character and stringency of immigration policies. Based on a selection of data for six pilot countries between 1990 and 2008, we document the variation of immigration policies across countries and over time. We focus on three specific dimensions: the number of entry tracks for economic workers; the measurement and role of bilateral agreements that complement unilateral immigration policies; and aggregation procedures that allow for gauging the stringency of immigration regulations comparatively.

Keywords: immigration policies; stringency indexes; economic immigration; entry track (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp5109.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA (2015)
Working Paper: Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA (2015)
Working Paper: Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA (2015)
Working Paper: Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA (2015)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_5109

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().