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The authors paper examines the restrictiveness of immigration laws in France, Germany, and the UK, from 1990 to 2002.
Restrictiveness of various types of immigration policy is represented by a data set of immigration laws in the three countries from 1990 to 2002, which were coded on two dimensions. The first dimension was the control/integration dichotomy (control and or integration). The second dimension was the restrictiveness of the law regarding immigrant rights. ‘Restrictive’ was defined as
any limitation of immigrant rights, freedoms, benefits or privileges, and ‘expansive’ was defined as the opposite.
Data was collected for the 12-year period, and when taking each law in each country as an individual case. This produced a set of 125 immigration laws
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