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The rationality behind immigration preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2003
of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
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A meta-analytic assessment of the effect of immigration on wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2004
-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
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The fallacy of "job robbing" : a meta-analysis of estimates of the effect of immigration on employment
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2006
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. Applying meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …
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Tax-induced emigration: who flees high taxes? : evidence from the Netherlands
Giarola, José Victor C.; Marie, Olivier; Cörvers, Frank; … - 2023
We study the impact of a policy change in the Netherlands that reduced preferential tax treatment duration for high-skilled migrants arriving from specific countries in certain years. Utilizing comprehensive tax and population data, we document substantial tax-induced emigration responses,...
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Regional inequality and human capital quality : the impact of technology on the arrival rate of employment offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a 'search & matching' framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
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Immigration and innovation in European regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011
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Education, growth and income inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - 2003 - This version: February 2003
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return to schooling. We present a simple explanation combining two ideas: imperfect substitution and endogenous skill-biased technological progress and use cross-country...
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Ethnic concentration and human capital formation
Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2004
Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part...
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Modeling migration dynamics of immigrants
Bijwaard, Govert - 2008
In this paper we analyze the demographic factors that influence the migration dynamics of recent immigrants to The Netherlands. We show how we can allow for both permanent and temporary migrants. Based on data from Statistics Netherlands we analyze both the departure and the return from abroad...
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