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This paper investigates how a reform allowing immigrants with children in France access to public housing during the 1970s influenced their initial location choices across local labour markets. We find that cities with higher public housing supplies have a large 'magnetic effect' on the location...
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The massive inflow of Syrian refugees is argued to drastically affect various social and economic outcomes in the hosting countries and regions. In this paper, we use micro-level data to investigate whether the Syrian refugee inflows have affected the market for housing rentals in Turkey. The...
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emigration-immigration country. The latter, namely immigration, was boosted by the European Union membership and by stable and … immigration policy and also its analysis are still scarce. In this paper we try to present and discuss the available information … on immigration to Poland and instruments of integration policy in the context of the existing institutional framework. We …
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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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Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect … components of migrant quality in Australia, a high-migrant share OECD country with a selective immigration policy. We proxy …-generation immigrants outperform natives on socially-beneficial personality traits. While first-generation migrants suffer language …
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Using the universe of individual asylum cases in the United States from 2000-2004 and a difference-in-differences research design, we test whether Sept. 11, 2001 decreased the likelihood that applicants from Muslim-majority countries were granted asylum. Our estimates suggest that the attacks...
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migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West …
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We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
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data and exploit exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the … 1920s Immigration Acts. We find that co-ethnic networks play an important role in attracting immigrant inventors. However … become major receivers of migrant flows and, in a long-term perspective, have started thinking about immigration in terms of …
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This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market assimilation – two processes that have been assumed to be independent in the existing literature. The JHL model accounts for the endogenous age of entry in estimating the...
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