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There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …
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constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one …
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. Examples range from international organizations like the European Union and NATO to firms, workers' cooperatives and trade …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was … the late 1990s/early 2000s wave of asylum seekers, and the second the large inflow of workers from EU accession countries …
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This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent …
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We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … immigration can be identified. When we are able to implement a credible research design with statistical power, we find no …
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In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
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The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, this hypothesis requires that the degree of screening of migrants by the host...
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
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