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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480728
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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State
Cohen, Alon - 2009
Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463909
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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2008
The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464188
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The Effects of the Ageing European Population on Economic Growth and Budgets : Implications for Immigration and Other Policies
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2006
increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465924
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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives
Angrist, Joshua - 2001
consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470055
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The Entry Into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60
Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1996
) the size of the human capital transfer resulting from antebellum immigration; and (3) the causes of the difficulty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473247
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Is The Mediterranean The New Rio Grande? US And EU Immigration Pressures In The Long Run
Hanson, Gordon - 2016
How will worldwide changes in population affect pressures for international migration in the future? We contrast the past three decades, during which population pressures contributed to substantial labor flows from neighboring countries into the United States and Europe, with the coming three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456058
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Migration and Welfare State : Why is America Different from Europe?
Razin, Assaf - 2014
Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458218
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461519