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The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts? the number of individuals of the same ethnicity?and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic group....
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constant inflation. This change has been more pronounced than elsewhere. We argue that this stems from the immigration boom in … Spain over this period. We show that the New Keynesian Phillips curve is shifted by immigration if natives' and immigrants … immigration. …
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flatter. We argue that this favorable evolution is largely due to the huge rise in the immigration rate, from 1% of the … population in 1994 to 9.3% in 2006. We derive a New Keynesian Phillips curve accounting for the effects of immigration, a …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …
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Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods …
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The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
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