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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … of noted refugee waves such as the Mariel Boatlift in Miami and post-Soviet refugees to Israel. We show that conflicting … consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to substantiate claims of large …
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Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...
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social security and migration. We characterize sub-game perfect Markov equilibria where immigration policy and pay … demonstrate that the older is the native born population the more likely is that the immigration policy is liberalized and the …
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The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …
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: immigration stimulated job creation, and the complexity of jobs offered to new native hires was higher relative to the complexity …
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as … consistent with the impact of immigration on individual political preferences, which we estimate using longitudinal data, and on … opinions about immigrants. Conversely, immigration did not affect electoral turnout. Simulations based on the estimated …
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We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of …
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The paper analyzes the effect of the generosity of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants. We develop a parsimonious model in which the effect of an increase in the generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of immigrants under free migration is...
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Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system when absorbing high-skill (respectively, low-skill)...
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Over the years, there emerged two key policy differences between Europe and America, both welfare and migration-states. The former has more generous welfare state and more liberal migration policies than the latter. In this paper we attempt to provide a political-economy explanation for these...
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