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The Impact of Multilingualism on Spanish Language Acquisition among Immigrants in Spain

Budría, Santiago; Swedberg, Pablo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

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Immigration and the UK Labour Market

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. Perceptions do not seem to line up with the existing academic evidence. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of...

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Wish You Were Here? Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Education on Attitude toward Immigrants

d'Hombres, Beatrice; Nunziata, Luca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use European Social Survey and Labour Force Survey data to estimate the causal effect of education on European … natives' opinion toward immigration exploiting reforms in compulsory education in Europe in the 1960s through the 1990s. Our … findings show that higher education leads to a more positive attitude toward immigrants. We also investigate the mechanisms …

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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political … incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing feature of Spain's education system. We calibrate the model to match … key moments of Spain's economy and education system in year 2008, the end of a large episode of immigration. By means of …

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Immigration, the European Union and the UK Labour Market

Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

During periods of strong economic growth, migration is and has always been important for filling gaps in the labour market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about adverse consequences of rising immigration in general and EU immigration in particular have...

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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

exploiting within-individual variation this quasi-experiment provides evidence on the role of education in moderating the …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

, lowering the return to native education and discouraging native high school completion. Conversely, native children might be …

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Immigration and the Political Economy of Public Education: Recent Perspectives

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country … and the quality of education in these schools. Our review of the literature, which includes both quantitative and …-scale immigration is that it appears to undermine the political support for public education, resulting in a deterioration in the …

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