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Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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literature on the effects of racial diversity and immigration on support for redistribution in the US and Europe …
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immigrants originate from Middle-Eastern countries, are less skilled than natives, and experience more residential segregation …
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In this paper we document the impact of immigration at the regional level on Europeans' political preferences as expressed by voting behavior in parliamentary or presidential elections between 2007 and 2016. We combine individual data on party voting with a classification of each party's...
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We study how decades-long exposure to individuals of a given foreign descent shapes natives' attitudes and behavior …
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labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … different margins of response and the resulting outcomes for natives of different skill types. We finally survey promising …
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redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit … are 1.19% and 1.00% for high and low skilled natives, respectively …
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World Poll (2005-2012). We find that migrants tend to make social trust assessments that mainly reflect conditions in the … one-third as important as the effect of local conditions. We also find that the altruistic behavior of migrants, as …
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The ageing of the population presents a major fiscal challenge for the countries of Europe. The combination of …
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The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...
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