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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants' education-occupation match

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....

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Income inequality and the size of government : a causal analysis

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin - 2019

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from the problem of endogeneity of government size with respect to the distribution of income. Studying 30 European countries over the period 2004-2015, we apply instrumental variable...

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Does redistribution hurt growth? : an empirical assessment of the redistribution-growth relationship in the European Union

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2024

This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …

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Do beliefs in the model minority stereotype reduce attention to inequality that adversely affects Asian Americans?

Chen, Shuai; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Wiese, Juliane - 2024

We study whether the model minority stereotype about Asian Americans (e.g., hard-working, intelligent) reduces people's attention to inequality that adversely affects Asians. In a nationally representative US sample (N=3,257), we find that around 90% of the participants either moderately or...

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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe

Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021

Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...

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Refugee migration, labor demand,and local employment

Auer, Daniel; Götz, Lilia - 2021

Whether or not immigration negatively affects the labor market outcomes of natives is an ongoing debate. One of the challenges for empirical evidence is the simultaneity of supply- and demand-side effects. To isolate the demand side, we focus on recent refugees in Germany who are exogenously...

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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...

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Immigration policy and immigrants' sleep : evidence from DACA

Giuntella, Osea; Lonsky, Jakub; Mazzona, Fabrizio; … - 2020

Stress is associated with sleep problems. And poor sleep is linked with mental health and depression symptoms. The stress associated with immigrant status and immigration policy can directly affect mental health. While previous studies have documented a significant relationship between...

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The effects of the 2008 labour-migration reform in Sweden : an analysis of income

Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020

In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy in order to facilitate more labour migration from countries outside the EU. The unique design of the new law meant abandoning most state ambitions to shape labour migration. Under the new regulation, there are no labour-market tests or any...

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Suffering and prejudice : do negative emotions predict immigration concerns?

Deole, Sumit S.; Huang, Yue - 2020

Despite being a regular suspect, a causal role of residents' emotions in predicting their opposition to international immigration has not been investigated. Using the individual-level panel data from Germany, we study the impact of the individual's experience of negative emotions (sadness, fear,...

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