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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021

We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles when Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Age at migration and social integration

Aslund, Olof; Bohlmark, Anders; Skans, Oskar Nordstrom - 2009

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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How the macroeconomic context impacts on attitudes to immigration: evidence from parallel time series

Ruist, Joakim - 2014

This study investigates the effects of the macroeconomic context on attitudes to immigration. Earlier studies do in … immigration. As an illustration, the estimates indicate that the number of individuals in the average European country in 2012 who … were against all immigration from poorer countries or of foreign ethnicities was 40% higher than it would have been if …

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Immigration and electoral outcomes: Evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany

Bredtmann, Julia - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...

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Please Call Me John: Name Choice and the Assimilation of Immigrants in the United States, 1900-1930

Carneiro, Pedro; Lee, Sokbae; Reis, Hugo - 2016

The vast majority of immigrants to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century adopted first names that were common among natives. The rate of adoption of an American name increases with time in the US, although most immigrants adopt an American name within the first year of arrival....

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On Immigration and Native Entrepreneurship

Duleep, Harriet; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021

We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capital is not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs of investing in new skills or methods and will...

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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Drinkwater, Stephen; Crawley, Heaven; Kauser, Rukhsana - 2013

from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …

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Peers, neighborhoods and immigrant student achievement - evidence from a placement policy

Aslund, Olof; Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; … - 2009

Immigrants typically perform worse than other students in the OECD countries. We examine to what extent this is due to the population characteristics of the neighborhoods that immigrants grow up in. We address this issue using a governmental refugee placement policy which provides exogenous...

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The value of earning for learning: Performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2013

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...

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