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This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous … estimated OLS wage elasticities to immigration. Sub-sample 2SLS estimates average - 1:2 and are very stable to the use of …
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In this paper, we investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the period since 1995 …
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immigration receiving countries cannot be explained by these children's favourable background characteristics. The political and …
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This paper explores the extent to which educational system features of destination and origin countries can explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we performed cross- classified multilevel analysis on the science performance of...
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This paper tests whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. We provide a theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant's employment probability. Utilizing the 2000 U.S. Census, we first...
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Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross … means that there is little discernable effect of increased immigration on the wages of native-born workers, but that the …
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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 the past 25 years immigration has re-emerged as a driving force in the size and composition of U.S. cities. This … paper describes the effects of immigration on overall population growth and the skill composition of cities, focusing on the …, these offsetting flows are small, so most cities with higher rates of immigration have experienced overall population growth …
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-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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inflows can therefore be seen as a natural experiment of immigration, avoiding the typical endogeneity problem of immigrant …
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