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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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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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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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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 …
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …
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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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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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). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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