About
The International Migration Policy And Law Analysis (IMPALA) Database is a cross-national, cross-institutional, cross-disciplinary project on comparative immigration policy.
The database, which will be used for both qualitative and quantitative research across a range of disciplines, improves existing databases on policy and captures trends in immigration selection policy, naturalization policy, illegal immigration policy and bilateral agreements across 20 OECD countries, across time.
It opens up possibilities for a range of comparative qualitative and quantitative research on the determinants of migration policy and the effect of migration policy on social, economic, demographic and political trends.
It is the product of an international collaboration between researchers from George Mason University, Harvard University, London School of Economics and Political Science, Paris School of Economics, University of Amsterdam, University of Luxembourg, and University of Sydney.
Pilot data covers 10 years and 9 country cases including Australia, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Please sign up if you would like to be notified by email when these data become publicly available.
Consortium
Principal Investigators:
Michel Beine
Professor of International Economics, University of Luxembourg
Brian Burgoon
Professor of International and Comparative Political Economy, University of Amsterdam
Mary Crock
Professor of Public Law, University of Sydney
Justin Gest
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
Michael Hiscox
Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University
Patrick McGovern
Associate Professor in Sociology, London School of Economics
Hillel Rapoport
Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics
Eiko Thielemann
Associate Professor in Government, London School of Economics
Lead Researchers:
Timnah Baker
Harvard University
Kate Bones
University of Sydney
Diana A. Igret
University of Luxembourg
Joep Schaper
University of Amsterdam
Benedicte Souy
University of Luxembourg
Publications
Beine, Michel, Brian Burgoon, Mary Crock, Justin Gest, Michael Hiscox, Patrick McGovern, Hillel Rapoport and Eiko Thielemann. 2014. "Measuring Immigration Policies: Preliminary Evidence from IMPALA", CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5109.
Gest, Justin, Anna Boucher, Suzanna Challen, Brian Burgoon, Eiko Thielemann, Michel Beine, Patrick McGovern, Mary Crock, Hillel Rapoport, and Michael Hiscox. 2014. “Measuring and Comparing Immigration Policies Globally: Challenges and Solutions” Global Policy, 5 (3).
Sponsors
Amsterdam Institute of International Development
Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research
Australian Research Council
Barrow Cadbury Trust
British Academy
Center for Population and Development Studies
European Union FP7
Fundación CIEES
George Mason School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs
Luxembourg National Research Fund
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Contact
Please refer to this website for announcements about data availability and access. Alternatively, please sign up if you would like to receive an email notification.
Please submit your contact information below.
If you are a sponsor, or a research team interested in contributing a country case study to the IMPALA Database, please contact:
Professor Justin Gest
George Mason University
School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs
3351 Fairfax Drive MS 3B1
Arlington, VA 22201
United States of America