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level of diversity. Natives prefer to live in culturally diverse areas, but they avoid to reside in areas where the share of …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output … support for these predictions. -- Immigration ; sectoral change ; output growth ; post-war Germany …
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This paper compares the effects of immigration flows on economic outcomes and crime levels to the public opinion about … non-random location choices of immigrants and find that immigration has no adverse effects on regional unemployment rates … confirm the public opinion about the contribution of immigration to higher crime levels, suggesting that Australians …
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investigates the role of natives' gender norms in the labor market integration of female immigrants. To analyze the role of natives … choice, we further provide supportive evidence that the association between natives' gender norms and immigrant women's labor …
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Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in Poland. For identification, I use an instrumental variable...
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This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
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This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in homevalue appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
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In a context of demographic change, European governments seek ways to keep the skill set of the labor force flexible. One option to achieve this goal is widening access to college education to non-traditional students, such as those vocationally trained. Assessing whether this is a promising...
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We examine occupational mobility and its link to wage mobility across a large number of EU countries using worker-level micro data. In doing so, we document the extent, the individual-level determinants and the consequences of occupational mobility in terms of wage outcomes and structural change...
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The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in routine tasks. These jobs have been shown to be...
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