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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to … natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information …
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We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to children of citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a left-right scale based on the ideological and policy...
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The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the …
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foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether …There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … the individual would prefer more or less immigration but not on his or her assessment of its importance as a policy issue …
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This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel … EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and … migration inflows to the EU from both EU and non-EU countries; i.e. natives' hostility discourages immigration. However, the …
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=333,505). We find that, as tourist arrivals grow, residents become more positive towards immigration in Eastern Europe. In …Can international tourist arrivals change residents' attitudes towards immigrants and immigration? We discuss possible … underlying mechanisms and provide the first evidence on this question using data from the European Social Survey (2002-2019; n …
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the health of immigrants and the positive selection, screening and discrimination applied by the host countries. In this … data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results … shows moderate positive impact of immigration fitting demand mostly in agriculture, construction and household services. We … analyse an impact of immigration on the domestic labour market in Poland. The immigrants fill gaps existing due to relatively …
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Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales …. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local Authority level administrative data from the Worker Registration … Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life …
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