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' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … depends strongly on local labor market conditions, with strong impacts in regions with high unemployment. Similarly, we find …
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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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Can political leaders change constituents' beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...
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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 …
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find a significant left-bias of second generation migrants relative to observationally identical natives, similar in …
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shortages, lowering of nominal short term interest rates and increasingly immovable unemployment. This four-pillar definition … demand shortages and an increasingly immovable unemployment stress the need for full employment policy measures, the lowering … of an aging population and a declining working age population, hence highlighting the pertinence of immigration as a …
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