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

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

In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

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

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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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 Instituut - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment: Education Matters

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

-mentioned association between migration and FDI, by using the UK annual data from 2001 to 2007 for 22 countries on the inward volume of FDI … migration and outward FDI. This result also holds, if we correct for endogeneity by using an instrumental variable approach. If …

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Migrants and International Economic Linkages: A Meta-Overview

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

prompted much research on the socio-economic impacts of immigration. The migration issue has become one of the most debated … international migration on international trade, foreign direct investment, and tourism. These studies have largely adopted the same … migration and foreign direct investment. Our primary results confirm that immigration has a positive impact on FDI investment in …

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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the estimates vary with definitions of the labor market,...

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