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The effect of immigration on natives' well-being in the European Union
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2019 - Version: May 24, 2019
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Europe today, yet little is known about the overall effect of its … member states) using macro data aggregated from Eurobarometer surveys. Immigration does not statistically affect natives … subgroups, notably the poorly educated and elderly. Refugees also do not statistically affect the well-being of natives. Any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159280
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable … same characteristics as the refugees, using panel data for 2003-2013 to capture unobserved heterogeneity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222073
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Challenged by migration : Europe's options
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111774
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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable … same characteristics as the refugees, using panel data for 2003-2013 to capture unobserved heterogeneity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483881
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Economic preferences and the self-selection of immigrants
Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit S. - 2022
Classical theories hypothesize individual economic preferences, including preferences toward risk, time, and trust, as determinants for migration intention. In the paper, we combine data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, European Social Survey, and World Values Survey to investigate how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357802
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I'm neither racist nor xenophobic, but: dissecting European attitudes towards a ban on Muslims' immigration
Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2018
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 … of Europe' rhetoric successfully and use various pretexts to justify a call for a ban on Muslims' immigration, e.g. the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130589
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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?
Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018
Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130641
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Racial diversity, immigrants and the well-being of residents : evidence from U.S. counties
Kuroki, Masanori - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114070
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Is immigration good for Europe? : long-run evidence using comprehensive well-being
O'Connor, Kelsey J. - 2024
The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014637523