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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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This paper presents empirical evidence that racial diversity and immigrant population at the local level tend to be … associated with lower life satisfaction for Whites by matching individual data with the county-level population data during the … period 2005-2010. The magnitudes I find suggest that a ten percentage-point increase in the share of the non-White population …
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Triangle immigrant in ux, to investigate the effects of unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to … economic insecurity more likely led to the over 10 percentage points rise in the probability of anti-immigration attitudes …
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increase the labor force and broaden the tax base. Increasing immigration has a variety of effects on the local population … attractiveness of immigration as a solution to population ageing. This paper examines immigration as a solution to the problem of … ageing population, while considering the implication of immigration on social norms. …
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immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another …
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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A growing concern in Western countries is the fact that immigrants might adopt oppositional identities. Although identity is expected to affect the economic outcomes of immigrants, little is known about the factors that in uence the identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment...
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outcomes as well as in other middle-income countries in southern Africa. …
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We examine the short-term labour market effects of COVID-19 and the associated national lockdown in Australia by estimating person-fixed-effects models using the Longitudinal Labour Force Survey. COVID19 decreased labour force participation (LFP) by 2.1%, increased unemployment by 1.1% and...
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variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated …
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