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  • 5 - Immigration’s Impact on Economic Institutions

  • from Part II - Cross-country Evidence
  • Alex Nowrasteh, Benjamin Powell
  • Book:
    Wretched Refuse?
    Published online:
    10 December 2020
    Print publication:
    17 December 2020, pp 71-96

  • Summary

    A growing empirical literature supports the importance of strong private property rights, a rule of law, and an environment of economic freedom for promoting long-run prosperity. But little is known about how immigration impacts these institutions. This chapter empirically examines how immigration impacts a nation’s policies and institutions. We find no evidence of negative and some evidence of positive impacts in institutional quality, as measured by the economic freedom index, as a result of immigration.