Immigration policy index |
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| Authors: | Dmytro Vikhrov |
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| Institution: | Moody's Analytics and CERGE‐EI, Prague, Czech Republic |
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| Abstract: | The immigration policy index is based on three types of entry visa restrictions: visa required, visa not required for short stays and visa not required. I identify country pairs which changed their visa regime during 2000–2010 and find that the weakening of visa policy is associated with a 10 percent increase in migrant stocks and a significant shift towards male and less skilled migration from policy affected source countries. In contrast, the tightening of visa policy is not related to a significant change in migrant stocks, their gender or skill composition. The result suggests the existence of immigration policy hysteresis. |
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| Keywords: | Immigration policy visa differences‐in‐differences estimation policy quasi‐experiment group heterogeneity diaspora effect |
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