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Macroeconomic Determinants of International Migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of … macroeconomic variables – UK GDP growth and GDP at origin – are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of …

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The Immigrant-Native Wage Gap in Germany Revisited

Ingwersen, Kai; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2019

This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the...

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Who is in favor of immigration

Epstein, Gil S.; Katav-Herz, Shirit - 2019

Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...

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Hate at first sight? Dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration: The case of Ukip

Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...

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Immigration and the Reallocation of Work Health Risks

Giuntella, Osea; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Nicodemo, Catia; … - 2018

This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs...

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Does Immigration Decrease Far-Right Popularity? Evidence from Finnish Municipalities

Lonsky, Jakub - 2020

Across Europe, far-right parties have made significant electoral gains in recent years. Their anti-immigration stance is considered one of the main factors behind their success. Using data from Finland, this paper studies the effect of immigration on voting for the far-right Finns Party on a...

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Safety at Work and Immigration

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Martin Bassols, Nicolau; Vall … - 2020

dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the costs and benefits of migration flows. …

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The Unintended Consequence of Stringent Immigration Enforcement on Staffing in Nursing Homes: Evidence from Secure Communities

Gunadi, Christian - 2023

The provision of healthcare in the United States is increasingly more reliant on immigrant workers. In this paper, I examine the impact of Secure Communities, a major immigration enforcement program that was designed to check the immigration status of all individuals arrested by local police, on...

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Learning from the Origins

Yarkin, Alexander - 2023

international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants …

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Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...

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