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Crime and immigration : evidence from large immigrant waves
Bell, Brian; Fasani, Francesco; Machin, Stephen - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969993
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Crime and immigration : new evidence from England and Wales
Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191911
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Visa policies, networks and the cliff at the border
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - 2012
sensitive to the immigration policies set by other destination countries, an externality that we are able to quantify. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291367
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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010
The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272661
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From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: theory and evidence
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2008
immigration from a theoretical and empirical point of view. Our analysis supports the role played by economic channels (labour … and the very low fractions of voters favouring immigration are consistent with the median voter framework. At the same … time, given the extent of individual-level opposition to immigration that appears in the data, it is somewhat puzzling, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268876
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Local-Level Immigration and Life Satisfaction: The EU Enlargement Experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015
Scheme, we find that higher local level immigration increased life satisfaction of young people and decreased life … level immigration increased natives' satisfaction with their dwelling, partner and social life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401784
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The impact of immigration on international trade: A meta-analysis
Genc, Murat; Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282213
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Welfare participation by immigrants in the UK
Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - 2011
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282345
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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK
Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371871
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The (hidden) financial flows of terrorist organizations: A literature review and some preliminary empirical results
Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2010
a literature review is provided about the financing of terrorist and organized crime organizations, their sources and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276713