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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821802
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271227
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Criminality, social cohesion and economic performance
Entorf, Horst - 2000
aggregation. Our empirical results with respect to the causes of crime clearly reveal the crime reducing potential of family … cohesion and the link between crime and the labour market. Furthermore, we find that higher wealth is associated with higher … rates of property crime and of drug-related offences. Drug offences themselves turn out to be robust factors of property …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428328
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Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum in the developed world increased tenfold, from about 50,000 per annum to half a million over the same period. Governments and international agencies have grappled with the twin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261985
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Belonging or estrangement : the European refugee crisis and its effects on immigrant identity
Prömel, Christopher - 2021
This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in Germany. To derive plausibly causal estimates, I exploit the quasiexperimental setting in Germany, by which refugees are allocated to different counties by state authorities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657847
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe: for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269549
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269562
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Economic Strain, Ethnic Concentration and Attitudes Towards Foreigners in the European Union
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
This paper provides a statistical analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards foreigners displayed by Europeans sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262673
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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU: an East-West comparison
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU) suggest different roles of being non-native in these two regions. In this paper we study the roles of foreign origin and citizenship in the comparative East-West perspective. Our...
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