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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....
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The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990924
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Miserable Migrants? Natural Experiment Evidence on International Migration and Objective and Subjective Well-Being
Stillman, Steven; Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Over 200 million people worldwide live outside their country of birth and typically experience large gains in material well-being by moving to where incomes are higher. But effects of migration on subjective well-being are less clear, with some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in...
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …
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Superstition in the Housing Market
Fortin, Nicole M.; Hill, Andrew J.; Huang, Jeff - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
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The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes Toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education
Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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Do Immigrants Bring Good Health?
Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time …. Our results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884243
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The Value of Earning for Learning: Performance Bonuses in Immigrant Language Training
Aslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
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