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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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) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …
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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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immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … between immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages …
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We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration … among natives. Next, we unpack the channels behind the political effects of immigration, distinguishing between economic and …
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How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrants' assimilation in host societies? This paper offers the first systematic answer to this question by focusing on Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved to America, and anti-Catholic...
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