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) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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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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Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
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on source-host, OECD-EU country pairs in the year 2000. The identification strategy is to use the decomposition the … source-host country pairs into two groups: one group, a "free migration" group, source-host country pairs within the EU, and … another group, "policy-controlled migration" group, the pairs from non-EU countries into the EU. We find evidence in support …
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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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For each year of work under the Social Security System, immigrants realize higher benefits than U.S. born, even when their earnings are identical in all years the immigrant has been in the U.S.. Two features of the social security benefit calculation are responsible: the social security benefit...
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Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native …-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed ….S. to examine the relationship between black self-employment and immigration in both 1980 and 1990. To control for permanent …
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Among 18-40 year old men in the United States, immigrants are less likely to be institutionalized than the native-born, and much less likely to be institutionalized than native-born men with similar demographic characteristics. Furthermore, earlier immigrants are more likely to be...
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