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refugee settlements across the universe of more than four thousand Greek municipali-ties that existed in 1920. Using a battery …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? In this paper we match data on thousands of notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical data on...
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The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact … unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed upon their voluntary return or deportation to Mexico, almost a …
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The recent impetus of tougher immigration-related measures passed at the state-level raises concerns about the impact … unique survey of Mexican unauthorized immigrants interviewed upon their voluntary return or deportation to Mexico, almost a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129945
early in the transition, the causal effect of immigration on capital investments and housing costs is positive. We present …
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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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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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It is assumed that not only will more highly educated migrants do better in the receiving country labour market, but also that those who are relatively more educated compared to their compatriots, that is who are 'selected', will bring additional forms of human and social capital associated with...
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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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