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Immigration, Economic Freedom, and Ideology

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  • Alexandre Padilla
  • Nicolás Cachanosky

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Concerns about immigrants’ impact on US institutions are not new. We find such concerns in the correspondences and writings of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. More recently, Borjas argues immigrants from countries with poor institutions could substantially undermine US institutions negating all economic gains associated with immigration in terms of GDP and income. In this article, we review our research, attempting to measure immigrants’ impact on US states’ institutions. Our results don’t confirm Borjas’s hypothesis. Our results show that whatever impact immigrants may have on US institutions is neither statistically nor economically significant.

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  • Alexandre Padilla & Nicolás Cachanosky, 2020. "Immigration, Economic Freedom, and Ideology," The International Trade Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 34(1), pages 5-17, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:uitjxx:v:34:y:2020:i:1:p:5-17
    DOI: 10.1080/08853908.2019.1695026
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    1. Cachanosky, Nicolás & Padilla, Alexandre & Gómez, Alejandro, 2021. "Immigration and institutional change: Did mass immigration cause peronism in argentina?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 184(C), pages 1-15.
    2. Lili Yao & J. Brandon Bolen & Claudia R. Williamson, 2022. "Are economic arguments against immigration missing the boat? The fiscal effects of the Mariel Boatlift," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 89(2), pages 305-325, October.

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