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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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Forthcoming in the <I>International Journal of Population Research</I>, Vol. 2012.<P> Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch....</p></i>
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This paper surveys migration to and from the Netherlands since thesixteenth century with an emphasis on the post-war period. Existingstudies on the labour market performance of immigrants and ethnicminorities are considered and some new results from our recentresearch are presented.<P> See also...</p>
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this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …
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-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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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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The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
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We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying …
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This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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