Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society: Wretched Refuse? by Nowrasteh, Alex -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Half title Series page Title page Imprints page Contents Tables Figures Acknowledgments 1 Introduction Part I State of the Debate

2 An Economic Case for Free Immigration

3 The New Economic Case for Immigration Restrictions

4 Immigration’s Impact on Productivity

4.1 How Immigration Affects Productivity

4.2 How Immigrants Affect Productivity: Testing the Epidemiological Model 4.3 Quasi-Natural Experimental Evidence from Poland 4.4 Conclusion

Part II Cross-country Evidence

5 Immigration’s Impact on Economic Institutions

5.1 Cross-country Data and Methodology 5.2 Cross-country Results 5.3 Immigration to the United States and State-Level Economic Freedom 5.4 Conclusion

6 Immigration’s Impact on Corruption

6.1 Data and Methodology

6.3 Robustness Checks 6.4 The Mariel Boatlift and Corruption: A Case Study 6.5 Conclusion

7 Immigration’s Impact on Terrorism

7.1 Introduction

7.2 The Threat of Terrorism in the United States

7.2.1 Costs of Terrorism in the United States

7.3 Immigration and Terrorism

7.3.1 Correlates of Terrorism 7.3.2 Does Immigration Spread Terrorism? 7.3.3 Terrorism Data and Methods 7.3.4 Baseline Empirical Strategy 7.3.5 Instrumenting Immigration 7.3.6 Identification 7.3.7 Empirical Results 7.3.8 Discussion

7.4 Conclusion

8 Immigration’s Impact on Culture

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Trust as a Substitute for Formal Institutions 8.3 The Relevance of Social Trust for Immigration Policy 8.4 The Deep Roots of Economic Development 8.5 Conclusion

Part III Case Studies in Mass Immigration

9 United States

10 Israel

10.1 Mass Immigration and Economic Freedom 10.2 Synthetic Control Analysis of Economic Freedom and Corruption 10.3 Qualitative Mechanism: How Immigration Changed Institutions 10.4 Conclusion

11 Jordan

11.1 Jordanian History, Institutions, and the Surge of Kuwaiti Palestinian Refugees 11.2 Refugees in Jordan 11.3 Jordan as a Quasi-Natural Experiment 11.4 Data 11.5 Methodology 11.6 Economic Institutions: Empirical Results 11.7 Political Institutions and Corruption: Empirical Results 11.8 Qualitative Mechanism: How Immigration Changed Institutions 11.9 Conclusion

Part IV Assessing the New Economic Case for Immigration Restrictions

12 Conclusion

Bibliography Index