Showing 1 - 10 of 464
migrants. We use migration aspiration data from the Gallup World Poll Surveys which provide the preferred location choices of … Mexico but would also create heterogeneous immigration pressures from Mexico across potential foreign locations. In … particular, countries such as Canada, the UK, Germany, Spain, and France would face significantly higher increases in Mexican …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576955
preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566488
What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652730
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 workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669546
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450779
Migration is often temporary, and the intended length of stay in the host country is an important determinant of immigrants' labor market behavior, human capital investment, and socioeconomic integration. In this paper, we investigate whether safety conditions in the home country affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464163
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564132
We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which … estimate a stochastic growth model with endogenous immigration and training to account for these facts and study macroeconomic … performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578538
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498678
How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619294