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To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of … Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and household services, a term that refers to …
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effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
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There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether … the individual would prefer more or less immigration but not on his or her assessment of its importance as a policy issue …
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We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess … whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the … estimations that deal with the endogenous sorting of immigration by region and with the sampling error in survey based measures of …
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We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people's attitudes towards immigration … education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market.Second, we develop an … alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people's attitudes towards immigration. We find …
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worsen crime. In contrast, native opinions on the impact of immigration on culture and the labor market are unrelated to the …
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