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How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …
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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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Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper …, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates – and that this … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …
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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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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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This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 and 2010, and investigates the underlying mechanism. We present districtlevel and firm-level estimates and address endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share...
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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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We empirically analyze the impact of immigration to the U.S. on the share of votes to the Republicans and Democrats … Survey merged with election data – and addresses the endogeneity of immigrant flows using a novel set of instruments. On … average across election types, immigration to the U.S. has a significant and negative impact on the Republican vote share …
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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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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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