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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective

De Coulon, Augustin; Piracha, Matloob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...

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Crime and immigration: evidence from large immigrant waves

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an …

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Accounting for big city growth in low paid occupations: immigration and/or service class consumption

Gordon, Ian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...

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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

different?’ and ‘is their behaviour changing over time?’ The indicators we look at are the gender gap in education, age at …

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Immigration, diversity and the labour market outcomes of native workers: some recent developments

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...

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Immigration and the access to social housing in the UK

Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; Manning, Alan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant household characteristics immigrants are significantly...

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Crime and immigration: new evidence from England and Wales

Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

interest as the composition of migration to the UK altered dramatically with the accession of Eastern European countries (the A …

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Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK

Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan; Commander, Simon - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

country residents to obtain education. We studied the implications of doctors¿ migration by conducting a survey among overseas …The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the … degree of screening of migrants by the host country is limited and that the possibility of migration actually encourages home …

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Local economic conditions and the nature of new housing supply

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Rouwendal, Jan; Vermeulen, Wouter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

migration and is hindered by strict local land use control. Our findings imply that tight regulation may hamper metro area level …

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Agglomeration in a global economy: a survey

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This review of recent contributions reveals common conclusions about the effects of integration on location. For high trade costs, the need to supply markets locally encourages firms to spread across different regions. Integration weakens the incentives for self-sufficiency and for intermediate...

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