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We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más -a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey and a triple difference approach, we find that...
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We estimate the crowding out of private transfers caused by 70 y Más –a public assistance program for the rural elderly in Mexico for whom family support is an important source of income. Using data from the Mexican Income and Expenditure Survey and a triple difference approach, we find that...
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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …
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A model is set up where migrants must choose a level of social traits and consumption of ethnic goods. As the … consumption level of ethnic goods increases, the migrants become ever more different to the local population and are less … assimilated. Less assimilation affects the reaction of the local population to the migrants and their willingness to accept the …
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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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Sweden in 2015, and the calculations account for refugees' age, years since immigration, and country of origin. The estimated …
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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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