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coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on …
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: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … are misplaced; immigration has had a positive average wage effect on native workers. Some concerns should be focused on …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … immigration does not, but rather reduces the share of offshored jobs instead. Moreover, since both phenomena have a positive "cost …
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There is a long-standing debate among academics about the effect of immigration on native internal migration decisions …. If immigrants displace natives this may indicate a direct cost of immigration in the form of decreased employment … underestimate the consequences of immigration. The widespread use of such area studies for the US and other countries makes it …
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There is abundant evidence that immigrant networks are associated with larger exports from the country where they settle to their countries of origin. The direction of causality of this association is less clearly established. Also, we do not know to what extent these increased exports are due...
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Using the large variation in the inflow of immigrants across US states we analyze the impact of immigration on state …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data … we find that immigration (1990-2006) had small negative effects in the short run on native workers with no high school …
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We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration …
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native-born workers specialize in performing complementary tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their task … cleaning, cooking, and building. Immigration causes natives -- who have a better understanding of local networks, rules …. Simulations show that this increased specialization mitigated negative wage consequences of immigration for less-educated native …
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