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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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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 …. We identify a political principal-agent problem based on ego-rents from political office. Our theory predicts voter …
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on the sign and direction of convergence. We then use the World Value … the host country's culture. While migrants do act as vectors of cultural diffusion and bring about cultural convergence …
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Climate Change, Migration and Voice : An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019
This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...
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The Economic Effects of Immigration Restriction Policies - Evidence from the Italian Mass Migration to the US
Coluccia, Davide M.; Spadavecchia, Lorenzo - 2021
migrants,” whose migration was inhibited by the Act, drive this result …
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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2021
Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on native wages & labor supply. We operationalize this general-equilibrium effect in the workhorse labor market model with heterogeneous workers and intensive and extensive labor supply margins. We derive a closed-form...
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Immigrant Narratives
Gehring, Kai; Harm Adema, Joop Age; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022
Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via the media, are crucial in shaping how immigrants’ role in society is perceived. We propose a new method combining advanced natural language processing tools with dictionaries...
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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...
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Refugees' and Irregular Migrants' Self-Selection into Europe : Who Migrates Where?
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2019
irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …
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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...
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