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lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …
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1998 as well as the inter-temporal fiscal impact of immigration to Austria. Immigrants affect inter-temporal fiscal balance …. The overall fiscal effect of immigration is found positive, under the assumption that the age and fiscal characteristics … payments during working age. However, immigration is not likely to achieve inter-temporal fiscal balance, even if immigration …
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native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of …
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, without the rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the …
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In this paper, the amount of income redistribution in the United States, the European Union, and Switzerland is compared and empirically related to economic, political, and behavioral determinants elaborated in the literature. Lying in between the two poles, Switzerland provides unique evidence...
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low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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Many countries consider the residential concentration among immigrants a problem. This paper studies the factors influencing individual location decisions and evaluates a Swedish attempt to change the residential distribution of refugee immigrants in the late 1980's. Despite common perceptions,...
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Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow … of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …
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