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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …
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It is well-known that immigrants tend to be healthier than US natives and that this advantage erodes with time spent in the US. However, we know less about the heterogeneity of these trajectories among arrival cohorts. Recent studies have shown that later arrival cohorts of immigrants have lower...
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Despite their lower socioeconomic status, Hispanic immigrants in the United States initially have better health outcomes than natives. Paradoxically while second-generation immigrants assimilate socio-economically, their health deteriorates. I show that a model of selection and intergenerational...
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In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...
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Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time … results suggest that immigration reduces residents' likelihood to report negative health outcomes by improving their working …
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stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have … documented a significant relationship between immigration policy and the physical and mental health of immigrants, we know little … about the effects that immigration policy may have on immigrants' sleep patterns. Exploiting the approval of the Deferred …
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. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation …This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but … also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK …
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