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probability of immigrant employment. We start by confirming in both least squares and instrumental variables frameworks that … marriage to a native indeed increases immigrant employment rates. Next, we show that the returns to marrying a native are not … relationship between marriage decisions and employment. …
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Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high … services abroad on language skills at immigration trace back directly to migrants' participation in language courses, revealing …
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the most of immigration. This report finds that the immigration in the Dominican Republic has a varying but limited … aiming to facilitate the integration of immigrants and a better inclusion of immigration into different sectoral policies …, economic growth, and public finance – of immigration in ten partner countries: Argentina, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, the …
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employment of immigrant workers appears to be demand-driven, immigration may have some displacement effects in particular for … terms of employment, although female immigrants often face greater challenges than male immigrants. Even though much of the … economic impacts – on the labour market, economic growth, and public finance – of immigration in ten partner countries …
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The recent effects of immigration on the Argentine economy appear to be limited but positive. On average, immigration … is not associated with job losses or income declines for the population born in Argentina. High-skilled immigration is on … the contrary even associated with rising labour incomes among university graduates and female low-skilled immigration is …
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particular appears to increase paid employment opportunities. Immigration is also likely to raise income per capita in Thailand …The effects of immigration on the Thai economy are considerable, as the number of immigrants has increased rapidly … services. Immigration is associated with an improvement of labour market outcomes of the native-born population, and in …
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In this paper we employ the 2009 Family Expenditure Survey conducted by the Statistical Service of Cyprus in order to measure the poverty risk among immigrants in Cyprus. Results show that immigrants face a higher risk and depth of poverty than the native population. Large intra-group variation...
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than natives. We test these predictions with a dataset of public opinion on immigration in Spain, exploiting individual and …
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We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare, it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in … terms of both employment and wages. Unskilled workers, on the other hand, gain in terms of employment but may lose in terms …
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This paper considers the relation between immigration and prices for a large number of cities across the world over the … period from 1990 to 2006. Aggregate immigration ratios are shown to have a negative impact on international relative prices …-reducing effect of immigration, with the latter offering a more likely explanation at annual frequencies during this period. Our …
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