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Immigrant Assimilation And Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into Or Out Of Welfare?
Hansen, Jörgen; Löfström, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado; Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …
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A Theory of Immigration Amnesties
Epstein, Gil S; Weiss, Avi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and,...
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Labour Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labour market randomly offered...
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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
Do government provided training programmes benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language and then choose between working or attending government provided training. Although theoretically training may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661563
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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment; and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programmes. We argue that the heart of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123912
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Social Europe: Dramatic Visions and Real Complexity
Boeri, Tito - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Many social policy reforms have been carried out in Europe in the last fifteen years. Most of these reforms are marginal. Often they are mutually inconsistent. Yet, something is changing in the European social policy landscape and not in the direction implied by the presence of a 'race to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136747
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Expanding the Welfare System: A Proposal for Reform
Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This proposal involves the establishment of ‘welfare accounts’ for every person in a country. There are four accounts: a retirement account (covering pensions), an unemployment account (covering unemployment support), a human capital account (covering education and training), and a health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661484
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649
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Immigration and Swiss House Prices
Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices to immigration flows for 85 districts from 2001 to 2006. The … results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price inflation and … modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1% of an area’s population is coincident with an increase in prices …
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