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Turning Opposition into Support to Immigration: The Role of Narratives
Cattaneo, Cristina; Grieco, Daniela - 2020
The way we collectively discuss migration shapes citizens' perceptions of migrants and their influence on our society. This paper investigates whether a narrative about the positive impact of immigrants on the hosting economy affects natives' behaviour towards migrants. To shed light on the...
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Intermarriage and Immigrant Employment: The Role of Networks
Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2009
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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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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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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Are UK immigrants selected on education, skills, health and social networks?
Luthra, Renee; Platt, Lucinda - 2021
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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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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Immigrant Pupils' Scientific Performance: The Influence of Educational System Features of Origin and Destination Countries
Dronkers, Jaap; de Heus, Manon; Levels, Mark - 2012
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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The Impact of Immigration on the Geographic Mobility of New Zealanders
Stillman, Steven; Mare, David - 2007
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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Regional Variations in the Brexit Vote: Causes and Potential Consequences
Blackaby, David; Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - 2020
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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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2006
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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