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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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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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Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … shows moderate positive impact of immigration fitting demand mostly in agriculture, construction and household services. We … analyse an impact of immigration on the domestic labour market in Poland. The immigrants fill gaps existing due to relatively …
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We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate … the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take … anti-immigration votes, while the presence of culturally similar immigrants does not affect natives' voting behavior at all …
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
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cohort (made possible by the data for the first time since 1961), black immigration from Africa and the Americas, skin …, and that immigration, by introducing accomplished black immigrants from Africa (notably via the visa lottery), threatens …
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Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...
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