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The social integration of immigrants is believed to be an important determinant of immigrants' labor market outcomes. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, we examine how and why marriage to a native, one measure of social assimilation, affects immigrant employment rates. We show that even when...
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The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
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migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated … unlikely that internal mobility moderates any potential impacts of immigration on labour or housing markets in New Zealand. …
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national identity and attitudes towards immigration played. In addition to education, we find that national identity exerted a … East. Whereas, over and above this, concerns about immigration had a quantitatively large and highly significant impact in … identity and concerns about immigration having a larger impact for the English-born. Our findings are then discussed in the …
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Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross … means that there is little discernable effect of increased immigration on the wages of native-born workers, but that the …
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For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....
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-educated foreign and native-born workers specialize in performing different tasks, immigration will cause natives to reallocate their … tasks. Immigration induces natives to specialize accordingly. Simulations show that this increased specialization might … explain why economic analyses commonly find only modest wage and employment consequences of immigration for less …
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