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united States religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has …This study reviews and evaluates the intertwined relationship between immigration and religiosity, focusing on the two … sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. Based on the existing literature and on a statistical analysis of …
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refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the …
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immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … of international (e.g., climate change) refugees, and an extension of the US diversity lottery to a larger set of host …
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(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive … effects on native unskilled wages, employment and occupational mobility. …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative … relationship between wages and the proportion of immigrant workers in an occupation, observed in data, is almost entirely accounted …
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We analyze individual satisfaction with life as a whole and satisfaction with the personal financial situation for Israeli citizens of Jewish and Arab descent. Our data set is the Israeli Social Survey (2006). We are especially interested in the impact of the religions Judaism, Islam and...
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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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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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primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …
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It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …
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