Introduction
Immigration policy in the United States has always been a very controversial topic. As of 2014, the immigrant population adds up to more than 42.4 million, which is 13.3% of the total population of 318.9 million in the country (Zong, and Batalova 2016). Individuals in the country have divided opinions and attitudes regarding the increased number of immigrants coming into the country. A lot of economic and non-economic factors come into play with this. Their attitudes are affected by a host of considerations such as economic perception, political ideology, ethnic and racial identity. At present, however, individuals in the United States seem to be more concerned about the economy and the effects of immigration. Some have negative …show more content…
Skilled and unskilled individuals have had contrasting views for a long time now. There have been many past studies that have been conducted that are related to this. They have aimed to answer what the determinants of individual preferences over immigration policies are. As stated above, many authors have conducted research on how the individual’s skill level is a determinant factor for preference on immigration policies. For example, Scheve and Slaughter (2001) conducted a study to examine the determinants of individual immigration policy preferences. They used the NES data sets, surveys of individual-level political opinions, from 1992, 1994 and 1996 when conducting their research. The responses of questions about how individuals felt regarding the U.S’s policies regarding permitting the number of immigrants in the country were used. The conclusion of their study demonstrated that there is a “robust” relationship between labor skill and preferences over immigration policies (Scheve, and Slaughter 2001). They found that less-skilled individuals preferred more-restrictive immigration policies and that more-skilled individual 's preferred less-restrictive immigration policies. Another study conducted by Mayda (2006) produced results that were similar to the Scheve and Slaughter study. Her study expanded to results to country level explanations. She aimed to “examine the economic and noneconomic determinants of individual attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. She looked into “interactive” effects of both individual and country level attributes, through the use of two survey data sets (Mayda 2006). These included data from both developing and developed countries. Among the economic factors she observed, she concluded that on an individual level, the skill level does contribute towards the preference of immigration policies.
Immigration policy in the United States has always been a very controversial topic. As of 2014, the immigrant population adds up to more than 42.4 million, which is 13.3% of the total population of 318.9 million in the country (Zong, and Batalova 2016). Individuals in the country have divided opinions and attitudes regarding the increased number of immigrants coming into the country. A lot of economic and non-economic factors come into play with this. Their attitudes are affected by a host of considerations such as economic perception, political ideology, ethnic and racial identity. At present, however, individuals in the United States seem to be more concerned about the economy and the effects of immigration. Some have negative …show more content…
Skilled and unskilled individuals have had contrasting views for a long time now. There have been many past studies that have been conducted that are related to this. They have aimed to answer what the determinants of individual preferences over immigration policies are. As stated above, many authors have conducted research on how the individual’s skill level is a determinant factor for preference on immigration policies. For example, Scheve and Slaughter (2001) conducted a study to examine the determinants of individual immigration policy preferences. They used the NES data sets, surveys of individual-level political opinions, from 1992, 1994 and 1996 when conducting their research. The responses of questions about how individuals felt regarding the U.S’s policies regarding permitting the number of immigrants in the country were used. The conclusion of their study demonstrated that there is a “robust” relationship between labor skill and preferences over immigration policies (Scheve, and Slaughter 2001). They found that less-skilled individuals preferred more-restrictive immigration policies and that more-skilled individual 's preferred less-restrictive immigration policies. Another study conducted by Mayda (2006) produced results that were similar to the Scheve and Slaughter study. Her study expanded to results to country level explanations. She aimed to “examine the economic and noneconomic determinants of individual attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. She looked into “interactive” effects of both individual and country level attributes, through the use of two survey data sets (Mayda 2006). These included data from both developing and developed countries. Among the economic factors she observed, she concluded that on an individual level, the skill level does contribute towards the preference of immigration policies.