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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267885
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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … graduates, relative to all other individuals, we find that net migration flows are college-intensive, relative to the population … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282560
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269562
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Migration, redistribution and the universal welfare model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283996
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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2009
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276403
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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated
Schiff, Maurice - 2005
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267439
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Immigration policies and the ecuadorian exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269412
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Labour market status and migration dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … in the number of migrants from the EU accession countries will lead to higher labour market and migration dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269402
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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