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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 … wages. We also analyze children of migrants and show that parents' time in the host country before child birth matters …
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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 … argue that while higher bars to migration may increase the absolute skill level of migrants, it may also exclude those 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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This paper explores the extent to which educational system features of destination and origin countries can explain differences in immigrant children's educational achievement. Using data from the 2006 PISA survey, we performed cross- classified multilevel analysis on the science performance of...
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This paper uses data from the New Zealand Census to examine how the supply of recent migrants in particular skill … groups affects the geographic mobility of the New Zealand-born and earlier migrants. We identify the impact of recent … migration on mobility using the "area-analysis" approach, which exploits the fact that immigration is spatially concentrated …
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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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