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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988305
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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition
Avdiu, Besart - 2018
I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920757
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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
terms of both employment and wages for native workers. In contrast, documented immigration leads to a fall in natives …' employment due to its weaker job creation effect. A policy of stricter immigration enforcement, simulated by a rise in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949378
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Immigration, Attitudes and the Rise of the Political Right : The Role of Cultural and Economic Concerns Over Immigration
Davis, Lewis - 2016
With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native concerns over the economic and cultural impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999791
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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108468
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Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Edo, Anthony - 2017
We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951556
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2015
Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009880
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Self-Selection of Emigrants : Theory and Evidence on Stochastic Dominance in Observable and Unobservable Characteristics
Borjas, George J. - 2015
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 … emigrants in terms of preemigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …
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