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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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During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … effect if it targets employed workers because this leads to a risk premium in their wages. Finally, I present empirical …
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus …
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that immigration has actually reduced consumer prices in Spain. An increase in the share of migrants by 10 percentage …We investigate the effect of immigration on consumer prices in Spain between 1997 and 2013. Using variation across … provinces, we first document a positive correlation between consumer prices and the share of migrants in the population. However …
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We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...
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preferences for redistribution in Italy. Our randomized treatments show that preferences for redistribution are generally …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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