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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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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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There were large regional differentials in the Brexit vote. Most notably, the percentage voting to leave the EU ranged … national identity and attitudes towards immigration played. In addition to education, we find that national identity exerted a … East. Whereas, over and above this, concerns about immigration had a quantitatively large and highly significant impact in …
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This paper analyses the effects of immigration on waiting times in the National Health Service (NHS) in England …. Linking administrative records from the Hospital Episode Statistics (2003-2012) with immigration data drawn from the UK Labour … Force Survey, we find that immigration reduced waiting times for outpatient referrals and did not have significant effects …
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population grew by just 7% between 1971 and 2004, less than all the other EU15 countries except Germany. The UK population has … likely returned to their country of origin. We argue that, at present, it appears that A8 immigration has tended to increase …
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Using the UK Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities, we explore the determinants of religious identity for Muslims and non-Muslims. We find that Muslims integrate less and more slowly than non-Muslims. A Muslim born in the UK and having spent there more than 50 years shows a comparable...
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This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative … population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage … immigration on house prices is driven by local areas where immigrants have lower education …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … the late 1990s/early 2000s wave of asylum seekers, and the second the large inflow of workers from EU accession countries …
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