OBJECTIVE Describing and analysing the Spanish Parliamentary debate on immigration and health. METHODS A systematic search regarding parliamentary initiatives (PI) on immigration and immigration and health was conducted from the beginning of the Spanish democratic period (1979 to 2007). A protocol for collecting information was used to identify the parliamentary debate's main characteristics ...

How Do Very Open Economies Absorb Large Immigration Flows? Recent Evidence from Spanish Regions In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the population born abroad more than doubled, increasing from 4.8% to 10.8%. For Spanish provinces with above-median inflows (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropo...

Dr. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. This Backgrounder is an expansion of Dr. Borjas’ article, “The Labor Demand Curve Is Downward Sloping: Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market,” published in the November 2003 issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics (pp. 1335-1374)....

British population history has been shaped by a series of immigrations, including the early Anglo-Saxon migrations after 400 CE. It remains an open question how these events affected the genetic composition of the current British population. Here, we present whole-genome sequences from 10 individuals excavated close to Cambridge in the East of England, ranging from the late Iron Age to the midd...

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role labor protection in shaping preferences over migration policies. look at Swiss national votes which took place from 2000 to 2014. Our results show that higher immigrant exposure reduces pro-immigration vote shares municipali...

This paper investigates the effects of the large immigration wave experienced by Spanish regions in the period 1998-2008. We provide causal estimates of the effects of immigration on the main determinants of income and wages and simulate the response of Spanish regional economies to the immigration shocks in the data. We show that immigration is responsible for slower income per capita and labo...

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on waiting times for the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Linking administrative records from Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects on waiting times in accident and emer...

Migration by low-income workers limits the ability of a country to redistribute income, since more generous income supplements attract additional workers into the country, reducing wages and raising the cost of the program. This paper studies the role of immigration controls, which allow the government to raise the real incomes of existing immigrants without causing additional immigration. Para...