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Evaluating Immigration Policy: Potentials and Limitations
Fertig, Michael - 2002
framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … policy interventions are explained and the specific case of immigration policy is analyzed. It becomes transparent that the … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262810
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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition
DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000
by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving countries as Canada, Germany, Israel and the United States. It is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272933
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The economic impact of immigration in Greece: taking stock of the existing evidence
Cholezas, Ioannis; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2008
. This large scale immigration within a short time period had important social, as well as, economic consequences. The paper … reviews the existing evidence and concludes that on average the economic effects of immigration were beneficial, although … their distributional consequences were adverse. Greek immigration policy was haphazard and more efforts are needed in order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269050
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Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?
DeVoretz, Don J.; Laryea, Samuel A. - 1999
This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada?s post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of … what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives? employment and earnings, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262284
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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience
Winkelmann, Rainer - 1999
A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262286
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Age at migration and social integration
Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269096
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287659
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268868
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Immigrants and Unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277289
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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262250