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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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immigration policies of the two countries began to diverge considerably: the United States stressing family reunification and …
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The postwar period witnessed major changes in U.S. immigration policy and in economic and political conditions in many …
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The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large … high skilled cohort, and its quick integration into the domestic labor market. Immigration also changed the entire economic … Union within a short time, is also relevant for the current debate about winners and losers from immigration. This paper …
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This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence...
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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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Immigration is often viewed as a proximate cause of the rising wage gap between high- and low-skilled workers … involved. This paper offers an overview and synthesis of existing knowledge on the relationship between immigration and … in the tails of the skill distribution and higher residual inequality among immigrants than natives. Even so, immigration …
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