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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and … measurement challenges. While health is part of human capital, health assimilation is the mirror image of earnings assimilation …
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report poor economic and immigration policy outcomes. We also contemplate solutions. In particular, we observe that the …, thereby demonstrating the public value of immigration at a time when anti-immigrant rhetoric has become a serious irritant in …
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This paper compares the net fiscal position (NFP) of immigrants versus natives using data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. By employing a quantile regression approach, we find that European and non-European migrants have a different fiscal...
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In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …
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of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the … paper also provides evidence that racism and immigration phobia play a key role in shaping Europeans' support of a ban on … Muslim immigration. This finding challenges the discourse and campaigns of the populist groups who exploit the 'Islamization …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...
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This paper explores the long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between the 28 EU member states, covering the period 1995-2017. The cross-national, longitudinal analysis demonstrates that migration has had a positive and significant effect on development and economic growth in 28...
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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...
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This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator...
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The increasing flows of immigrants in Europe over the last decade has generated a range of considerations in the policy …
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