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patterns are driven by changes in technology and globalization which have made communication and management skills more …
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This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two …-religion relationship, immigration policies and concepts? The main findings are the following: (a) immigrants are indeed more religious than …
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the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …
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Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely … legalization programs mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 led to a stronger propensity to settle permanently …
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immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed – with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster of 2007/08 was not really a surprise –, and the five key requirements for restoring stability and efficiency in the EU/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important,...
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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 …
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some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
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We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation …-skilled migrants shows that an increase of 1 percentage point in the share of low-skilled migrants on the population reduces patent …
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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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