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nature of this immigration, but have not analysed the impacts on the economy. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical … analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on the economy of the small open type, like that of Greece. The theoretical … analysis uses a small stylised model to show that there is no unequivocal case for illegal immigration to lead to declines in …
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workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model … individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … spillovers effect for the majority. Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a … prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These … results add a previously unexplored dimension to the immigration debate that should be taken into account when evaluating the …
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sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment decision are estimated. Self-employed immigrants are found to do …
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Automated census linkage algorithms have become popular for generating longitudinal data on social mobility, especially for immigrants and their children. But what if these algorithms are particularly bad at tracking immigrants? Using nineteenth-century Irish immigrants as a test case, we...
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I investigate the effects of population ageing on immigration policies. Voters' attitude towards immigrants depends on … how the net gains from immigration are divided up in the society by the fiscal policy. In the theoretical literature this … between immigration and fiscal policies and solve this apparent inconsistency. I show that the elderly and the poor have a …
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model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the … Canadian immigrants to innovation is, in large part, explained by the low employment rates of Canadian STEM-educated immigrants …
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Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure improved the living standards of those they left behind is hardly in doubt. Nevertheless, a voluminous literature on the selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and...
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