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Canada. Particular attention is given to the Canadian program of TFWs that has intensified enormously over the last 30 years … decrease net interprovincial migrants within the year by about 50, a number substantially higher than is present in existing … suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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Immigration control-related audits and their resulting sanctions are not solely determined by impartial enforcement of … congressional oversight, i.e., legislative involvement, determines the bureaucratic immigration enforcement process. We examine the … union membership, correlate to bureaucratic decisions made at every stage of immigration enforcement. …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … controls the information related to the immigration stock it could delay the mass entry of immigrants, maintaining the required …
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This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an … unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …
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We study state dependence in welfare receipt and investigate whether welfare transitions changed after a welfare reform. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that state dependence in welfare receipt is not a central feature of...
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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