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We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives lead to less favourable attitudes of natives towards immigration. Interestingly, we do not find similar stylised facts … for immigrants' attitudes towards immigration. …
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The demand for skills exceeds supply, both within the Pacific Islands and the high-income countries of the Pacific Rim. Enhancing skilled migration therefore has the potential to generate large economic gains. The Global Skill Partnership is a migration model that can support such mutually...
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immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …
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There has been great interest in the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in recent years, and … in the U.S. welfare state, and anti-immigrant sentiments, many contend that immigration undermines public support for … social policy. This study analyzes three measures of immigration and six welfare attitudes using 1996 and 2006 International …
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This meta-study investigates recent research on the effects of immigration on the welfare state in Austria, Germany and …
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In this paper I provide some support to the Tiebout hypothesis. It suggests that when a group of host countries faces an upward supply of immigrants, tax competition does not indeed lead to a race to the bottom; competition may lead to higher taxes than coordination. We identify a fiscal...
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Among the more serious arguments against liberalizing immigration is that it can be costly to taxpayers. Low …-born Americans. Organizations such as the Center for Immigration Studies, the Heritage Foundation, and the Federation for American … Immigration Reform have produced reports claiming that immigration costs taxpayers tens of billions of dollars a year, with the …
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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
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This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...
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This paper provides overview of recent work on migration and welfare state tax policies: 1. I survey the literature on the tax burden of migration. 2. I empirically identify the differential effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants across the two...
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