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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but … countries in terms of education, earnings, and employment. …
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). This might have consequences for immigration policy - how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives' labour …
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marriage, cohabitation and inter-marriage, fertility and the employment of women. In all these dimensions we find that the …
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the … wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively …
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This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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A rise in population caused by increased immigration, is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in … immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant increases in immigration in recent years and this study uses …
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Although most UK immigrants are likely to be eligible to apply for social housing, there is no evidence that they have preferential access - if anything the reverse seems to have been the case. But it does seem that there is less discrimination against immigrants and ethnic minorities now than...
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … European Union in 2004. As we show, this has important implications for ensuring a causal impact of immigration can be …
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent …
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