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This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … concentration of immigrants affect the subjective well-being of the German-born population. Our results suggest the existence of a … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
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Recent studies point to a positive correlation between ethnic heterogeneity due to immigration and the propensity of … opting out from public schools for private alternatives. However, immigration across regions is hardly exogenous, which … obstructs attempts to reveal causal mechanisms. This paper explores changes in the immigrant population in Danish municipalities …
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the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a … large literature documenting the effects that migrants have on native wages, tax burden, unemployment, etc. However, very … little is understood about how migrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being, of natives.This paper uses the …
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Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … migrants' average education even if one allows for endogenous schooling decisions and education policies at origin. Still, more … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …
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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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This paper highlights that the immigrants' effect on trade is not identical across all types of immigrants but it varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the...
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some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …
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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows, using Italian panel data covering very … provinces coupled with the absence of cultural (e.g. language) or historical (colonial ties) attractors for immigration …
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We combine firm-level innovation data with area-level Census data to examine the relationship between local workforce characteristics, especially the presence of immigrants and local skills, and the likelihood of innovation by firms. We examine a range of innovation outcomes, and test the...
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