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In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropout population by 24%, while only increasing the number of … immigrant settlement patterns by country of origin. Using data from the Labor Force Survey and the decennial Census, we find a …
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
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We estimate empirically the effect of immigration on house prices and residential construction activity in Spain over … the period 1998-2008. This decade is characterized by both a spectacular housing market boom and a stunning immigration … wave. We exploit the variation in immigration across Spanish provinces and construct an instrument based on the historical …
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This paper analyzes the political sustainability of the welfare state in an environment where immigration is the main … demographic force and where governments are able to influence the size and skill composition of immigration flows. Specifically, I … present a dynamic political-economy model where both income redistribution and immigration policy are chosen by majority vote …
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in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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This paper compares the economic and cultural gaps of the largest foreign-born ethnic minorities in Spain: Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Moroccans and individuals from Other Muslim countries. We focus on several outcomes: the gender education gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility,...
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In this paper we investigate the contribution of health related behaviors to the education gradient, using an empirical approach that addresses the endogeneity of both education and behaviors in the health production function. We apply this approach to a multi-country data set, which includes 12...
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, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ?discrimination?, whether …
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, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyze close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about “discrimination”, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700968
, because rhetoric on the one hand, and content and methodology of the paper on the other, cannot be separated easily. We … productivity constant. We analyse close to 200 papers to investigate what drives authors to talk about ‘discrimination’, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661487