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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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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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Immigrant enclaves offer valuable ethnic amenities but may delay assimilation. We study enclave formation in the Age of Mass Migration by using the centralized location decisions for "ethnic" Catholic churches. After a church opening, same-ethnicity residents of chosen neighborhoods experienced...
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earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the …
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In this chapter, we describe long-run trends in global merchandise trade and immigration from 1870 to 2010. We revisit … interwar period, and then rebounded (but with much more pronounced growth in trade than in immigration). More substantively, we … differences framework in combination with a dramatic change in US immigration policy, we find evidence that immigration and trade …
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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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Strong versions of the set point hypothesis argue that subjective well-being measures reflect each individual's own personality and that deviations from that set point will tend to be short-lived, rendering them poor measures of the quality of life. International migration provides an excellent...
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