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the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study of how the pandemic impacted minority unemployment using CPS …
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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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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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Immigration is one of the most divisive political issues in many countries today. Competing narratives, circulated via …
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing …. Students who moved from East to West became more positive toward immigration. Results are confirmed among students whose move …
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Labor force transitions are empirically examined using CPS data matched across months from 1996-2012 for Hispanics, African-Americans and whites. Transition probabilities are contrasted prior to the Great Recession and afterwards. Estimates indicate that minorities are more likely to be fired as...
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