Exchange rates and immigration policy

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 3 Immigrant rights – alternative dependent measures

	(9) Peters and Shin	(10) IMPIC (OLS)	(11) IMPIC (Ordered Probit)
MRER_ij	0.548^a (0.166)	0.643^a (0.081)	3.968^d (2.188)
GDP per Capita_j (US$ in Thousands)	0.021^c (0.010)	0.011^b (0.003)	0.050 (0.041)
Trade Union Density_i	0.005^a (0.001)	−0.001 (0.001)	0.000 (0.012)
Right Wing Populist Vote Share_i	−0.018^b (0.006)	− 0.006^a (0.001)	− 0.065 (0.047)
Year Fixed Effects	✔	✔	✔
Observations	533	526	526
Countries	17	17	17
R² or Pseudo R²	0.096	0.278	0.261

Ordinary least square analysis of Immigrant Rights in Models (9) and (10) and ordered probit analysis in Model (11). Model (9) shows results using the immigrant rights variable in the Peters and Shin (2021), and Models (10) and (11) show results using the IMPIC indicator of whether migrants can vote in a national election. In Models (10) and (11), the dependent variable was recoded so that more migrant rights are coded high. The constant is included, but not reported in the table. Panel-corrected standard errors are in parentheses for Models (9) and (10), and clustered standard errors on country are in parentheses for Model (11). ^a, ^b, ^c, and ^d indicate statistical significance levels of .1, 1, 5, and 10%, respectively