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whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …
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employment growth. Then, we analyze whether local factors associated in the previous literature with agglomeration economies and …
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In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact...
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How will countries handle idiosyncratic national macroeconomic shocks under the European single currency? The ways in which European countries now react to internally asymmetric shocks provide a better forecast than do the regional response pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare...
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We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...
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output to R&D employment is around 1, while knowledge externalities exist, are geographically localized in an area of 200 kms …
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...
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workers' mobility is strongly cyclical, while this is not the case for natives. Foreigners' higher population to employment … elasticity reduces the variation of overall employment rates over the business cycle: thanks to them, the impact of a one … standard deviation change in employment on employment rates decreases by 6 per cent at the country level and by 7 per cent at …
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
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