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The Ups and Downs in Women's Employment: Shifting Composition or Behavior from 1970 to 2010?
Mastrobuoni, Giovanni; Pinotti, Paolo - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2014
We exploit exogenous variation in legal status following the January 2007 European Union enlargement to estimate its effect on immigrant crime. We difference out unobserved timevarying factors by 1) comparing recidivism rates of immigrants from the “new” and “candidate” member countries...
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Les théories migratoires contemporaines au prisme des textes fondateurs
Piché, Victor - In: Population (french edition) 68 (2013) 1, pp. 153-178
This article aims to explore the development of contemporary migration theories as reflected in some twenty founding texts brought together for the first time in a single volume (Piché V., 2013, Les théories de la migration, INED). Each text marks a major advance in the understanding of...
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Moving targets: Algerian state responses to the challenge of international migration
Collyer, Michael - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n°210 (2012) 2, pp. 107-122
. Finally, more recently there are signs of return movement to Algeria. This article examines these changes in terms of a loss and gradual regaining of control by the Algerian government of the international movement of people and the activities of Algerians once they have left.
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International migrations and urbanisation: 1960-2010
Royuela, Vicente; Castells-Quintana, David - In: International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 13 (2014) 2/3/4, pp. 150-169
regions. We found that while there was a positive association between immigration and urbanisation, particularly in small and …
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The Self-consciousness of Post-imperial Nations
Rothermund, Dietmar - In: India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs 67 (2011) 1, pp. 1-18
Self-consciousness is a state of mind induced by a feeling of being critically observed by others. Former colonial powers have experienced this feeling to an increasing extent in recent years. These experiences were similar among several nations such as the British, the Dutch, the Belgians, the...
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Economic Growth and Foreign Workers in ASEAN and Singapore
Thangavelu, Shandre Mugan - In: Asian Economic Papers 11 (2012) 3, pp. 114-136
immigrants on the welfare of the domestic economy through the immigration surplus that will accrue to the domestic economy …
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Did the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act Reduce the State's Unauthorized Immigrant Population?
Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 2, pp. 258-269
We test for an effect of Arizona's 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on the proportion of the state's population characterized as noncitizen Hispanic. We use the synthetic control method to select a group of states against which Arizona's population trends can be compared. We document a...
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Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
Bell, Brian; Fasani, Francesco; Machin, Stephen - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 4, pp. 1278-1290
This paper focuses on empirical connections between crime and immigration, studying two large waves of recent U ….K. immigration (the late 1990s/early 2000s asylum seekers and the post-2004 inflow from EU accession countries). The first wave led …
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THE DRIVERS OF LABOR INCOME INEQUALITY — A LITERATURE REVIEW
KIERZENKOWSKI, RAFAL; KOSKE, ISABELL - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 04 (2013) 01, pp. 1350004-1
. The most researched channels include skill-biased technological change, international trade, immigration, education as …
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Immigration, income and unemployment: an application of the bounds testing approach to cointegration
Mete Feridun* - In: Journal of Developing Areas 41 (2007) 1, pp. 37-49
This study aims at investigating the nature of the causal relationship between immigration and two macroeconomic … causality between immigration and GDP per capita. However, results do not support the hypothesis that immigration causes … unemployment. On the contrary, evidence suggests that unemployment causes immigration. …
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