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size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
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We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … Germans became narrower over time.Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue …
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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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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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This paper examines the effects of natives' anti-immigration attitudes on migration flows to EU countries. We use panel … EU destinations. Our findings suggest that there is a negative causal relationship between anti-immigration attitudes and … migration inflows to the EU from both EU and non-EU countries; i.e. natives' hostility discourages immigration. However, the …
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from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic …
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Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …
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distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show … that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for … fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration …
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