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compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
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shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …
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from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …
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size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …
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To examine the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity, wages and welfare we construct a general … show that a higher migrant share may explain a higher average productivity in a region. Though the relative wages of …
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migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
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In this paper we consider how international migration is related to the frequency and duration of trips to the home country. For many migrants, international migration triggers a series of trips to visit the home country that allow for a replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with...
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Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...
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While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration policy, there is no … combining information on the number of temporary work visas with data on lobbying activity associated with immigration. We find … robust evidence that both pro- and anti-immigration interest groups play a statistically significant and economically …
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