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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
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Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: The US and Spain. First, we provide a...
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Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration affects depression among natives 65 …To our knowledge, no study has examined the effect of immigration on the health of older natives. We use the Study of …-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 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 …
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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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size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of … data on 170 regions in Europe (NUTS 2 level) for the periods 1991-1995 and 2001-2005. Innovation outcomes are measured by …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …
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Recent theoretical research has identified many ways how contracts can be used as rent seeking devices vis-à-vis third parties, but there is no empirical evidence on this issue so far. To test some basic qualitative properties of this literature, we develop a theoretical and empirical framework...
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these selectivity issues using the randomization provided by an immigration ballot under the Pacific Access Category (PAC …) of New Zealand's immigration policy. We survey applicants to the 2002-05 PAC ballots in Tonga and compare outcomes for … ballots. The immigration laws determine which household members can accompany the principal migrant, providing an instrument …
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This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the post-socialist international migration system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. Over the past decade, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority...
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