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The determinants and effects of social connectedness in Europe

Bailey, Michael; Kuchler, Theresa; Russel, Dominic; … - 2020

more connected, likely due to increased migration from poorer to richer regions. We find more socially connected region …

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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

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The effect of Brexit on British workers living in the EU

Venâncio, Ana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the perspective of the EU countries, with regards how British citizens working in an EU country reacted to the end of free movement of workers. Employing synthetic control methods and...

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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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Social union, convergence and migration

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of … economic convergence. National welfare states will be threatened by the free migration of people in Europe. The race to the … migration are needed. The adoption of the principle of selectively delayed integration is the better alternative. …

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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....

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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020

We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...

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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success

Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....

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