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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...
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in Germany 2020. We find that the annualized growth rate of expenditures for durables increased by 6 percentage points …
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In this paper, we study how forced migration impacts the in-group and out-group social capital of Syrian refugees and … the migration experience (for refugees) and the refugee crisis (for the host population). Additionally, we study the … social spillovers to Palestinians, an established refugee population in Lebanon. We find that the impact of forced migration …
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We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …, this is mostly to disseminate cultural values and norms from host to home countries (i.e., cultural remittances). …
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We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Our causal identification relies on comparing students who moved across the East-West border after German reunification with students who moved within former East Germany. Students who moved from East to West became more positive...
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selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …
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countries. We draw on European data from 30 countries, including over 90 countries of birth and control for timing of migration …, selective migration and other controls including citizenship and cultural proxies. Our results show robust evidence of cultural …
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closely matching patterns for immigrants’ English language profficiency. …
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