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Immigration policy index
- 1.0475591 - NHU-C 2018 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Vikhrov, Dmytro
Immigration policy index.
Economics of Transition. Roč. 25, č. 1 (2017), s. 3-46. ISSN 0967-0750. E-ISSN 1468-0351
Institutional support: Progres-Q24
Keywords : immigration policy * visa * differences-in-differences estimation
OECD category: Applied Economics, Econometrics
Impact factor: 1.064, year: 2017
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.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0272277
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