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Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common...

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Regional Variations in Attitudes Towards Refugees: Evidence from Great Britain

Crawley, Heaven; Drinkwater, Stephen; Kauser, Rukhsana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

from British Social Attitudes Surveys. It therefore covers the period when immigration as a whole has increased and the … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a … display the most tolerant views both before and after the increase in immigration and asylum. However, characteristics such as …

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Ethnic Identity and Work

Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment of Natives in Regional Labour Markets: A Meta-Analysis

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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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The Effect of Rehabilitative Punishments on Juvenile Crime and Labor Market Outcomes

Huttunen, Kristiina; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Mälkönen, Ville - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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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Refugee and Asylum Migration to the OECD: A Short Overview

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper provides an overview of asylum migration from poor strife-prone countries to the OECD since the 1950s. I examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention is given to the rising trend of asylum applications...

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Are Immigrants Competing with Natives in the Italian Labour Market? The Employment Effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

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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Immigrants' Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

(especially the young and low-tenured ones) to pursue less manual-intensive occupations. As a result immigration had positive …

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