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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on crime and crime perceptions in Chile, where the foreign … immigration on crime but positive and significant effects on crime-related concerns, which in turn triggered preventive behavioral … based on a shift-share instrument that exploits immigration inflows towards destination countries other than Chile. On …
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of the participants with five statistics about immigration, before evaluating their attitude towards immigrants with self …, although it does not change people's policy preferences regarding immigration. Republicans become more willing to increase … legal immigration after receiving the information treatment. Finally, we also measure the same self-reported policy …
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How does easing the economic integration of forced migrants affect native voting behaviors in the Global South? This … paper assesses how the regularization of half a million Venezuelan forced migrants affected the electoral choices of … supports forced migrants. The findings show negligible impacts on native voting behavior. The study then conducted a survey …
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for immigration. These responses are disproportionately driven by the changes in attitudes of young males, with less … wealth, and who work in blue-collar occupations. Also, we find more support for immigration where employment increased and …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants'...
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of unaccompanied child migrants from these countries between 2011 and 2016. It finds that one additional homicide per …
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terrorism has a particularly negative impact on the integration of the highly educated, employed, and less religious Muslims …
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