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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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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022260
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Immigration, growth and unemployment : panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2013
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766677
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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022
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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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697117
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568775
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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 … accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms the previous finding of limited effect of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646817
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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 … seekers get back the money paid for the certificate. Immigration is therewith regulated more efficiently than today. Not all …
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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022
(elasticity +0.16) with no decrease or an increase in U.S. employment (elasticity +0.10, statistically imprecise) across several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013440276
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The effect of education on marital status and partner characteristics : evidence from the UK
Anderberg, Dan; Zhu, Yu - 2010
This paper uses a particular school exit rule previously in effect in England and Wales that allowed students born within the first five months of the academic year to leave school one term earlier than those born later in the year. Focusing on women, we show that those who were required to stay...
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