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We highlight the role of commuting cost, location and housing market in crime decision. By assuming that all crimes are committed in the central business district and that criminals create both positive and negative externalities to each other, we find that high wages or large levels of police...
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …
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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status in France from 1968 to 1999. For that purpose, we use longitudinal data coming from a panel dataset which follows almost 1% of the French population from 1968 to 1999 through...
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particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to … moderate actual public transfer payment dependence of migrants to Germany with the perception of migrants dependence on public …
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of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the risk to natives of becoming unemployed …
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result in highly restrictive immigration policies. Promoting integration of migrants into the host country would go a long … migrants’ integration, namely the process of social assimilation. The aim of this paper is to take a close look at migrants … module to the role and relevance of social relations for both migrants and natives. An innovative feature of this analysis is …
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This Paper analyses transitions into and out of three different labour market states: social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial conditions and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish...
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Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...
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