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immigration. …
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The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …
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contains an overview of the background regarding immigration in recent decades followed by a survey of relevant benefit … programmes in the Danish welfare state. Existing studies focus on both macro analyses of the overall impact from immigration on …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …
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for which they are eligible? The answer is politically important, but because most current research on immigration and …
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This paper investigates Dutch immigrants’ naturalisation decision and how naturalisation affects their employment chances and wages in the Netherlands. The population under consideration consists mainly of refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and former Yugoslavia, and a minority of...
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This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...
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Economists studying the economic behaviour of immigrants have tended to avoid serious interdisciplinary work. I argue that when presented with a particular set of research questions that lend themselves to a utility maximisation framework, an economist will be able to pursue interdisciplinary...
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This paper consists of two parts focusing on the immigrant’s decision to acquire Canadian citizenship, and her subsequent performance as a taxpayer and recipient of public finance transfers. Our results support the view that selectivity bias appears in Canadian immigrant citizenship decisions...
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. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … experience. The nature of immigration and structural differences involving the domestic labour markets are hypothesized to …, the timing of immigrant entry with respect to the business cycle, and changes in the rates of immigration flows, that may …
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