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Using a rich, nationally representative data set with a large sample of minorities and matched small area characteristics, we explore differences in life satisfaction for ethnic groups living in UK. We test the hypothesis that minorities will be less satisfied, which will in part be explained by...
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It has long been accepted that lack of social participation in wider society is one aspect or one definition of poverty. Current concerns with the extent and distribution of social capital as both a measure of a good society and as means to upward mobility also emphasise the importance of social...
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but … United Kingdom have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with large immigrant populations albeit with very different …
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Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …
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comparable data on individuals who remained in India, we show that the average Indian immigrant will experience a fall in their …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …. There was no observable effect on violent crime for either wave. Nor were immigrant arrest rates different to natives …
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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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). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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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 … selected natives from these locations. At the same time, larger immigrant inflows into occupations come with larger outflows of …
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market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration … appear to have been modest. Unfortunately we do not know much about whether the effects of immigration are different in … downturns. We also need to understand more about how capital and sectoral shifts in demand respond to immigration over the …
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