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following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have …
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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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Using administrative employer-employee data from Germany, I exploit two reductions of tax breaks for commuting in 2003/4 and 2006/7 to estimate commuting costs’ effect on the decision to switch job and move house. Standard theory predicts that higher commuting costs should lead to increased...
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). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural … background. But, central to such a discussion is the pace of cultural assimilation among immigrants – this under-researched topic … the UK, the more likely it is that they do. This process of assimilation is faster for those from poorer and less …
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minimizing the problems of self-selection bias that are common in most of the alternative data sources. Fixed-effects estimation …
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Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory, ethnicity might affect positively innovation...
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …
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supply conditions. Previous research on the effect of immigration on local house prices has argued that the impact of … apply it to Spanish data during the period 2002-2010 and I show that overlooking the impact of immigration on native …
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