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Using multiple waves of Statistics Canada's Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) linked with the Longitudinal … Immigration Database (IMDB), as well as the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP)/ International Peace Research Institute in Oslo … health outcomes of immigrants to Canada. Our results demonstrate that immigrants from conflict zones face unique physical …
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We investigate the effect of the refugee inflow between 2014 and 2017 on voting for the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the national parliamentary election in 2017 in Germany. Drawing on unique small-scale data enables us to distinguish between the contact theory, captured by...
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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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In this article, we investigate the differences in smoking behavior between male Turkish immigrants and male Germans, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). More specifically, we use a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models, and isolate differences in the...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. -- International migration ; effects of immigration …
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This paper investigates the effects of the 2015 mass inflow of refugees to Germany on electoral outcomes. Specifically, using unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I analyze how local exposure to refugees affects the outcomes of the March 2016 state election - an...
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Immigration enforcement cooperation between final destination and transit countries has increased in the last decades …. However, the question whether these measures are successful in deterring undocumented migrants has not been previously … explored by the empirical literature. This paper examines whether the Southern Border Plan, an immigration enforcement program …
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This paper analyzes in how far immigration affects firm formation at the regional level. For this purpose, we exploit a … panel regressions suggest that immigration had a positive impact on regional firm formation. The most likely mechanisms … demonstrates that immigration induced changes in local labor supply can partially be absorbed by the creation of firms. …
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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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We analyze public expectations about migrants’ provision of work effort as a driving force in the self …-selection process of high-skilled migrants. We adopt and extend Piketty’s (1998) theoretical framework of social status and work out how … country-specific public expectations affect the migrants’ choice about their country of destination. As a result, we relate …
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