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To what extent does immigration affect the economic institutions in destination countries? While there is much evidence … that economic institutions in developed nations are either unaffected or improved after immigration, there is little … evidence of how immigration affects the economic institutions of developing countries that typically have weaker institutions …
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There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing...
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International trade in higher education services in the form of international student mobility has increased sharply since the 1960s and especially from Eastern Europe and Central Asia since the fall of the Soviet Union. Many international students, especially those with graduate degrees, stay...
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Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an … to control for potential unobservable factors that would lead migrants to self-select into more vulnerable occupations …
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