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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. Applying meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment: Education Matters

Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …

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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …

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Intervention Time Series Analysis of Crime Rates

Sridharan, Sanjeev; Vujic, Suncica; Koopman, Siem Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

January 1, 1995. We examine the impact of this legislation on reported crime rates using different time series approaches. In …

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Tracing the Base: A Topographic Test for Collusive Basing-Point Pricing

Bos, Iwan; Schinkel, Maarten Pieter - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

Basing-point pricing is known to have been abused by geographically dispersed firms in order to eliminate competition on transportation costs. This paper develops a topographic test for collusive basing-point pricing. The method uses transaction data (prices, quantities) and customer project...

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Status-Seeking in Violent Subcultures and the Double Dividend of Zero-Tolerance

Dur, Robert - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

This paper develops a model in which individuals gain social status among their peers for being 'tough' by committing violent acts. We show that a high penalty for moderately violent acts (zero-tolerance) may yield a double dividend in that it reduces both moderate and extreme violence. The...

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The Pro-collusive Effect of Increasing the Repose Period for Price Fixing Agreements

Hinloopen, Jeroen - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

Intuitively, extending the period of repose for price fixing agreements enhances the effectiveness of competition policy enforcement. This paper proofs this intuition wrong. As extending the repose period reduces cartel members' defection payoff while it leaves unaltered expected compliance...

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Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

We first demonstrate that, within a fully integrated economy (FIE) in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each FIE member's share of total FIE output will equal its shares of the total FIE stock of each productive factor. This equal-share property implies that, if economic...

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Global Aging and Economic Convergence: A Real Option or Still a Case of Science Fiction?

Dalen, Hendrik P. van - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

donors face in offering development assistance and designing immigration policy. …

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