{"id":34596,"date":"2022-05-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissmig.wordpress.com\/?p=34596"},"modified":"2022-05-02T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T07:00:00","slug":"immigration-quotas-and-anti-immigration-attitudes-an-evaluation-of-swiss-migration-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/?p=34596","title":{"rendered":"Immigration Quotas and Anti-Immigration Attitudes: An Evaluation of Swiss Migration Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Author(s) : Qingyang Lin<\/h3>\n<h3>Source : <a href=\"http:\/\/repec.graduateinstitute.ch\/pdfs\/Working_papers\/HEIDWP05-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/repec.graduateinstitute.ch\/pdfs\/Working_papers\/HEIDWP05-2022.pdf<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This paper adopts a difference-in-difference <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">strategy taking advantage of subnational variations in the implementation of the <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">quota system to evaluate this migration policy.<\/span> <span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">An instrument variable of anti-<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">immigration attitudes is used to address the potential endogeneity issue. The au<\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">thor finds that the immigration quota system slowed down the growth of foreign <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">population in Switzerland, but had no impact on unemployment. Moreover, such <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">immigration restriction lowered the average skill level of the Swiss population <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">which in turn hurt the productivity of the Swiss economy.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keywords<\/strong>:\u00a0<span dir=\"ltr\" role=\"presentation\">Migration; Anti-Immigration Attitudes; Unemployment; Labor Skills<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s) : Qingyang Lin Source : http:\/\/repec.graduateinstitute.ch\/pdfs\/Working_papers\/HEIDWP05-2022.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[722,37,9,133,83,36,411,94,177,103,264,84,309],"class_list":["post-34596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-722","tag-attitudes-towards-migrants","tag-english-language","tag-immigrant-policy","tag-labour-market-policy","tag-migration-policy","tag-perception","tag-political-system","tag-psychological-well-being","tag-refugees","tag-skills","tag-unemployment","tag-working-paper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissmig.unine.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}