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Designing Institutions to Deal with Terrorism in the United States
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2010
The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia …
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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications
Ambrosini, William - 2011
migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skills …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127753
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
Thousands of resumes were sent in response to online job postings across multiple occupations in Toronto to investigate why Canadian immigrants, allowed in based on skill, struggle in the labor market. Resumes were constructed to plausibly represent recent immigrants under the point system from...
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Workplace Concentration of Immigrants
Andersson, Fredrik - 2010
To what extent do immigrants and the native-born work in separate workplaces? Do worker and firm characteristics explain the degree of workplace concentration? We explore these questions using a matched employer-employee database that extensively covers employers in selected MSAs. We find that...
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How Do Immigrants Spend Time? : The Process of Assimilation
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2010
Using 2004-2008 data from the American Time Use Survey, we show that sharp differences between the time use of immigrants and natives become noticeable when activities are distinguished by incidence and intensity. We develop a theory of the process of assimilation--what immigrants do with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137316
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Inside the Refrigerator : Immigration Enforcement and Chilling Effects in Medicaid Participation
Watson, Tara - 2010
Economists have puzzled over why eligible individuals fail to enroll in social safety net programs. "Chilling effects" arising from an icy policy climate are a popular explanation for low program take-up rates among immigrants, but such effects are inherently hard to measure. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139139
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Does Culture Matter?
Fernández, Raquel - 2010
This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The epidemiological approach studies the variation in outcomes across different immigrant groups residing in the same country. Immigrants presumably differ in their cultures but share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139141
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Immigration : America's Nineteenth Century "Law and Order Problem"?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010
Past studies of the empirical relationship between immigration and crime during the first major wave of immigration have focused on violent crime in cities and have relied on data with serious limitations regarding nativity information. We analyze administrative data from Pennsylvania prisons,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139282
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Rethinking the Area Approach : Immigrants and the Labor Market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2010
for native labor. I also use a novel instrument based on demographic characteristics of total Central American migrants or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139895
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117395