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Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that …Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that …
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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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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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as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps between ethnic minority and majority populations in terms of labor market …
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expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This enables us to better understand the risk of minority exclusion …; the inner nature of discrimination, negative attitudes and internal barriers; as well as the ethnic minorities' desires …
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barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of … public in Europe has rather negative attitudes towards immigrants. Although the business community views immigrants somewhat … recognition of foreign qualifications, discrimination, intransparent labor markets and institutional barriers such as legal …
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