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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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difference declines with years since immigration. …
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Swedes. Nowadays there are negative income effects due to the deteriorating employment situation among the immigrants. The …' employment rate by 1 percentage unit will change their yearly net contribution to the public sector by 0.1% of the gross national …
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This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP). While the economic literature stresses the role of prices and...
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This paper tests the assimilation hypothesis with Norwegian data. Using both cross-section and cohort analyses, the results show that the 1970-1979 immigrant cohort experienced an earnings growth of about 11% between 1980 and 1990, when their earnings profile was compared to that of natives....
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