. Only immigrants that have been living in the country for a short period of time are found to negatively impact natives … concentration of migrants with low parental education, while migrants with high parental education are found to have no impact. The …

When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the … literature. This paper proves that such approach is conceptually inconsistent, yielding an estimate of interpersonal inequality … among the whole population of the country rather than an estimate of regional inequality. Nevertheless, as a measure of …

Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … subsidiary questions are thus. 1. Should the cost of educating immigrants’ children (£7.6bn a year) be attributed to immigration … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding …

Why do legal permanent migrants return to their home countries? How do home country conditions influence this decision … return motivations of a national sample of Australian immigrants. On average, a 10% favorable exchange rate shock (a … depreciation in the home country currency) leads to a reduced likelihood of return of 0.37 percentage points for migrants. The …

of social inequality on the activity of old people. Dissemination of new technologies and organizational forms allows …. Article aims to highlight the importance of inequality for the activity of the elderly and its relationship to social capital …

inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … paper, we provide some elements that can help understand what are the consequences of these gifts on poverty and inequality …

assessment of socioeconomic convergence in terms of critical indicators of economic inequality, poverty ratios, literacy rate and …

The aim of this paper is to analyze how female migrants fare in the labor market in Spain, a country that has … experienced impressive immigration flows during the last decade. Particularly, we explore the differential access to employment …. In both cases, we find an economically significant gap, at least for migrants from non-developed countries. Regarding the …

This article analyses the immigrant-native wage differentials in Spain, which only recently has become a host country …