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Conflicting identities: Cosmopolitan or anxious? Appreciating concerns of host country population improves attitudes towards immigrants

Stöhr, Tobias; Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2016

Cosmopolitan or anxious? In order to test the influence of conflicting aspects of identity, German respondents were asked about their attitude towards a Syrian refugee the description of whom was varied in various domains (N=662). Once the refugee is described as being aware of as well as open...

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A micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration

Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire - 2016

decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

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Migration and wage-setting: reassessing the labor market effects of migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage …-setting curve is particularly high for young and well-educated workers. The labor market effects of immigration are moderate: a 1 … percent increase in the German labor force through immigration increases the unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage …

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Migration and FDI: Reconciling the standard trade theory with empirical evidence

Jayet, Hubert; Marchal, Léa - 2016

This article focuses on an apparent conflict between the standard trade theory and available empirical evidence on factor flows. Theoretically, labor and capital flows must be substitutes. However, empirical papers find migration and FDI to be either substitutes or complements, depending upon...

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