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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
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the 2004–2014 period for the full Finnish population, allowing a dynamic analysis of changes in income and neighbourhood … of residence. Based on multinomial logit modelling of migration outcomes, we found that an increase in income is … to differences in immigration history and levels of ethnic segregation. Therefore, the local context matters for spatial …
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capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the …Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …
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, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …. These results suggest that financial constraints to international migration are binding for poor Mexicans, some of whom …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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In the postwar period, when fertility dropped substantially, immigration more than made up for the drop in population … planning has been abandoned. In regard to effects on population size, it seems like immigration policies were set by a sorcerer … growth, and from 1950 to 2020, population increased by 73%, double the European rate, in a country with population density …
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prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of "free" migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that … exactly the same forces are at work driving African across-border migration today. Rapid growth in the cohort of young …
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