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Mobile internet access and the desire to emigrate

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines survey data on 617,402 individuals from 2,120...

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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration

Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 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...

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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2010

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … improvements in the technology of offshoring. -- offshoring ; trade in tasks ; unemployment ; search and matching …

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The effect of conflict on Ukrainian refugees' return and integration

Adema, Joop; Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Giesing, Yvonne; … - 2023

During 2022, about eight million Ukrainians were displaced from Ukraine due to the Russian invasion. Whether these individuals will return holds great significance for Ukraine's reconstruction and is pivotal in shaping integration strategies in host countries. We used Facebook ads to recruit a...

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Has immigration contributed to the rise of rightwing extremist parties in Europe?

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne - 2020

Alongside a range of already well documented factors such as deindustrialization, technological progress and international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme right-wing parties in Europe. Our study highlights,...

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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018

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 France, using panel data on presidential elections from...

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Immigrant narratives

Gehring, Kai; Adema, Joop; Poutvaara, Panu - 2022

word-matching methods and sentiment dictionaries. Empirically, culture narratives are more common than economy …

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The bazaar effect, unbundling of comparative advantage, and migration

Kohler, Wilhelm (contributor) - 2007

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Heterogeneous workers, trade, and migration

Heiland, Inga; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2013

migration has the opposite beneficial effects. Our model can explain two-way migration among similar countries, a pattern that … features prominently in migration data. …

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Risk sharing in currency unions : the migration channel

Kohler, Wilhelm; Müller, Gernot J.; Wellmann, Susanne - 2021

quantify risk sharing can be extended to account for migration as an additional channel of cross-country risk sharing. In … theory, migration should play a key role when it comes to insulating per capita consumption from aggregate fluctuations, and … these results, we also present survey evidence which shows that migration rates are about 20 times higher in the US. Lastly …

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