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We combine the New Immigrant Survey (NIS), which contains information on US legal immigrants, with the American Community Survey (ACS), which contains information on all immigrants to the U.S., legal and illegal ones. Using econometric methodology proposed by Lancaster and Imbens (1996) we...
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immigration. The dynamics and underlying processes of setting immigration requirements remain unclear as research so far mainly … different levels of perceived migrant potential and public debate shape immigration requirements. We employ the minimal group … paradigm and immigration requirements are set by in-group voting. Our results suggest that fairness and efficiency of …
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts immigrants from other African countries and from other parts of the world, such as China. Given high poverty levels and weak social security systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, host...
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Public attitudes toward immigration have attracted much scholarly interest and extensive empirical research in recent … affecting immigration opinion. We address this gap through a formal meta-analysis derived from the literature regarding … immigration attitudes from the top journals of several social science disciplines in the years 2009-2019 and based on a population …
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flatter. We argue that this favorable evolution is largely due to the huge rise in the immigration rate, from 1% of the … population in 1994 to 9.3% in 2006. We derive a New Keynesian Phillips curve accounting for the effects of immigration, a …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German...
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affect the nature of the immigration inflow can effectively reduce native income losses and dampen adjustment dynamics in … regional labor markets. One such intervention is to distribute the inflow more evenly over time. Smaller immigration inflows …
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-aid policies. In particular, we hypothesize that aid from donors that are open to immigration has stronger growth effects than aid … results support the hypothesis that donors’ openness to immigration strengthens the growth effects of foreign aid. …
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