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There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
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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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, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the economic performance of migrants with respect to the Mexican labour …
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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 performance of non-migrants had they decided to migrate and return? Both …
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degree of screening of migrants by the host country is limited and that the possibility of migration actually encourages home …
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occupations heterogeneous in the presence of immigrants, which might reflect a different degree of competition with low …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively …
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Research on employers’ hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers …, where employers can freely exercise their taste for racial discrimination in terms of hiring and firing. The setting allows … us to eliminate co-worker, consumer-based and statistical discrimination as potential sources of discrimination, thus …
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In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...
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skill distribution and across countries. Using data on Indian immigrants in the United States and the UK matched to … country. The fall in relative rankings is larger for immigrants to the UK than to the US, and largest of all for those with …
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