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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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In this paper, we re-examine the role of economic self-interest in shaping people’s attitudes towards immigration … education and attitudes towards immigration reflects economic self-interest in the labour market. Second, we develop an … alternative and more direct test of whether economic self-interest matters for people’s attitudes towards immigration. We find …
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considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …
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Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …
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In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...
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Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. We apply meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …
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This paper examines resident foreigners’ interest in German citizenship. The study focuses on the roles played by attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners, intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and among foreigners themselves, and regional differences...
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This paper estimates the effect of a rehabilitative punishment on the post-release outcomes of juvenile criminals using a unique Finnish data set on sentences and punishments merged with the longitudinal population census for 1990-2007. The rehabilitative program was aimed at improving the...
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Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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