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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country
Candel-Haug, Katharina - 2019
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892174
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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216254
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864933
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Immigrants as Future Voters
Hillman, Arye; Van Long, Ngo - 2021
Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory of international economics. In particular, political parties that, according to economic theory, should adopt policies beneficial for lower-income voter-constituencies, have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215676
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Does Emigration Drain Entrepreneurs?
Anelli, Massimo - 2020
Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829325
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Priming Attitudes Towards Immigrants : Implications for Migration Research and Survey Design
Dylong, Patrick; Setzepfand, Paul; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2023
Using data from two representative and large-scale population surveys with more than 4000 participants, we investigate the effect of randomized priming interventions on attitudes towards immigrants. We document robust null effects of these interventions under two experimental settings, across...
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Migration between Platforms
Biglaiser, Gary - 2020
We study incumbency advantage in markets with positive consumption externalities. Users of an incumbent platform receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837685
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Weather Shocks and Migration Intentions in Western Africa : Insights from a Multilevel Analysis
Bertoli, Simone - 2020
We use a multilevel approach to characterize the relationship between weather shocks and (internal and international) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for Western African countries over 2008-2016. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842387
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Time-Space Dynamics of Return and Circular Migration : Theories and Evidence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2020
connecting them to the theories, policies and institutions. Return, repeat, and circular migrants are self-selected and extremely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842677