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The effect of reducing welfare access on employment, health, and children's long-run outcomes

Hicks, Jeffrey; Simard-Duplain, Gaëlle; Green, David A.; … - 2023

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …

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Non-cash benefits and the distribution of economic welfare

Callan, Tim (contributor); Keane, Claire (contributor) - 2009

indicators of standard of living as well as cash incomes ("consistent poverty"). -- Non-cash benefits ; income distribution …

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The persistence of welfare participation

Andrén, Thomas (contributor) - 2007

-run effects of receiving social assistance on future household earnings and disposable income. The results show that state … found for disposable income. This indicates that the economic incentives to leave the dependency are very weak. The picture … heterogeneity ; initial condition ; GHK simulator ; earnings ; disposable income …

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The impact of positive and negative income changes on the height and weight of young children

Buser, Thomas; Oosterbeek, Hessel; Plug, Erik J. S.; … - 2014

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country …

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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?

Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model that analyzes the effects of selective immigration...

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Fifty years of compositional changes in US out-migration, 1908 - 1957

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2013

Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official statistics that directly identify the...

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Returns to citizenship? : Evidence from Germany's recent immigration reforms

Gathmann, Christina; Keller, Nicolas - 2014

Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. In this paper, we ask whether a more liberal access to citizenship can improve the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a...

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Employment of undocumented immigrants and the prospect of legal status : evidence from an amnesty program

Devillanova, Carlo; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso - 2014

This paper estimates the causal effect of the prospect of legal status on the employment outcomes of undocumented immigrants. Our identification strategy exploits a natural experiment provided by the 2002 amnesty program in Italy that introduced an exogenous discontinuity in eligibility based on...

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Immigrant crime and legal status : evidence from repeated amnesty programs

Fasani, Francesco - 2016

Do general amnesty programs lead to reductions in the crime rate among immigrants? We answer this question by exploiting both cross-sectional and time variation in the number of immigrants legalized generated by the enactment of repeated amnesty programs between 1990 and 2005 in Italy. We...

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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right : (unexpected) results from Austria

Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...

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