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the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to …-nationalist policies (which destroy productivity, compress the income distribution and promote the benefits of social affiliation) …
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labor is not always benefited by high skilled migrants into R&D-sector. Rather, it depends on the importance of migrants …
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We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...
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We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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We study whether reallocating existing teachers across schools within a district can increase student achievement, and what policies would help achieve these gains. Using a model of multidimensional value-added, we find meaningful achievement gains from reallocating teachers within a district....
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proportion of income) also decline by almost the same amount, suggesting shared understanding that is characteristic of social …
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perceptions of intergenerational mobility change along the income distribution. Empirically, we conduct a survey experiment in … Austria and show that the average treatment effect of information on perceptions is mostly driven by higher income individuals … while low-income respondents hardly react. We replicate this result for the United States and Germany using data from two …
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We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...
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universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as …In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the …, and migrants are concentrated in only a handful of industries, predominantly finance. Almost all (85%) of the growth in …
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