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This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL … with other independent welfare measures to an extended gravity model of immigration for 16 OECD destination countries from … 1991 to 2000 suggests an insignificant role for QOL in the immigration process. The panel results suggest that other …
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we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …
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distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … the data (cross-section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be …
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We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a...
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that at least skilled immigration promotes economic equality in the host country under standard conditions. The context is …
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … provinces coupled with the absence of cultural (e.g. language) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration …
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looking to history. We show that immigration, primarily from Europe between 1870 and 1910, had an important pro-trade effect …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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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 …
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The purpose of this paper of this paper is to explore the immigration and productivity in Spain. We estimate the effect … of immigration on labor productivity from 2004 until 2008 for Spain. Using firms (SABI) and individuals data (Social … immigrants in the last decade: Barcelona and Madrid. After controlling for endogeneity of immigration, the results demonstrate …
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