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provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves … about immigration. This effect cannot be explained just by concerns that immigrants are competing with oneself in the labor … market. Instead, it appears that people who feel that they have not got what they deserve in life oppose immigration for …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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, and drops considerably after migration outside the Nordic countries. Pre-migration differences between couples … subsequently migrating to different destinations are small. Our survey reveals that couple migration is usually driven by the male …'s job opportunities. The results suggest that increasing international migration may reduce women's career investments …
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We present a theory on migration of dual-earner couples, and test it in the context of international migration. Our …
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distribution for the non‐migrants. This result is not driven by immigration policies in destination countries. Decomposing the self …We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and nonmigrants. We use the Danish …
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In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...
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Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and … several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in … immigration flows by past settlement patterns in 1968. We find that immigration increases support for far-right candidates and has …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948823
graduate taxes, collected also from migrants, would improve efficiency. It could even allow for a Pareto-improvement. …
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Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …
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