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increased immigration would do little to reduce the future fiscal burden. The increased revenue from a large rise in immigration …
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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …
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The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs …, refugees arrived without formal selection processes or federal support. We examine the integration of historical refugees using … consistent with the hypothesis that refugees had greater exposure to English or more incentive to learn, due to the conditions of …
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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …
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We study out-group biases in attitudes toward refugees, and the effect of European Union (EU) immigration policies on … a randomly assigned group: Italian victims of violence or refugees fleeing wars in Ukraine or African countries. We also … employ a novel measure, the share donated in cash. While donations indicated less support for African and Ukrainian refugees …
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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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 …
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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)...
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