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Immigration, integration, and the informal economy in OECD countries
Ben Atta, Oussama; Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - 2022
This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host … Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data from the OECD Interna- tional Migration Database and data on asylum … asylum seeker ows by their predicted values derived from the estimation of a pseudo-gravity model. Results suggest that both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013450696
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020 - Pre-publication draft July 2020
fences signals a paradox: In spite of the anti-immigration rhetoric of policymakers, there is little evidence that walls are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249714
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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114016
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Walls and fences : a journey through history and economics
Vernon, Victoria; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2019
fences signals a paradox: In spite of the anti-immigration rhetoric of policymakers, there is little evidence that walls are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161476
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Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391757
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Immigration policy and remittance behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497171
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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012286158
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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK
Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017
result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114007
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114931
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Immigration and unemployment in Europe : does the core-periphery dualism matter?
Esposito, Piero; Collignon, Stefan; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012162043