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. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …
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Immigration policies in western democracies have often been contrary to the policies predicted by the mainstream theory … defection from worker-supported political-establishment parties to new-entrant anti-immigration political candidates and parties …
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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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The offshoring of production by multinational firms has expanded dramatically in recent decades, increasing these firms’ potential for economic growth and technological transfers across countries. What determines the location of offshore production? How do countries' policies and...
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Despite intense policy debates, the relationship between social welfare and refugee crime remains understudied. Taking steps to address this gap, our study focuses on Switzerland, where mobility restrictions on exogenously assigned refugees coincide with cantons' autonomy in setting social...
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This article studies the impact of immigration restriction policies on technology adoption in sending countries. From … Quota Act, a severely restrictive immigration law. In a difference-in-differences setting, we exploit variation in exposure … migrants,” whose migration was inhibited by the Act, drive this result …
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Based on administrative data of unemployed in Belgium, we estimate the labour market effects of three training programmes at various aggregation levels using Modified Causal Forests, a causal machine learning estimator. While all programmes have positive effects after the lock-in period, we find...
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affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … of individuals towards immigration after accounting for their age and other individual characteristics. We test this … “societal population aging” is the old-age dependency ratio. “Attitudes” are taken from immigration related questions in eight …
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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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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage … 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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