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The impact of Mexican immigrants on US wage structure

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - 2007

Previous study by Card and Lewis (2005) has found (puzzling) that inflows of Mexican immigrants into new metropolitan areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card...

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Immigration and Majority Voting on Income Redistriubtion - Is there a Case for Opposition from Natives?

Mayr, Karin - 2003

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income …

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Does Immigration into Their Neighborhoods Incline Voters Toward the Extreme Right? The Case of the Freedom Party of Austria

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

This paper explores one potentially important channel through which immigration may drive support for extreme right …

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Immigration and Distribution of Wages in Austria

Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2011

Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …

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Political bias in court? Lay judges and asylum appeals

Martén, Linna - 2015

Several countries practice a system where laymen, who lack legal education, participate in the judicial decision making. Yet, little is known about their potential influence on the court rulings. In Sweden lay judges (namndeman) are affiliated with the political parties and appointed in...

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Ethnic Enclaves and the Economic Success of Immigrants - Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000

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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Immigrant Settlement Policies and Subsequent Migration

Åslund, Olof - 2000

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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Settlement Policies and the Economic Success of Immigrants

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - 2000

of new immigrants away from immigrant dense metropolitan areas. We evaluate a reform of Swedish immigration policy that …

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Immigration and voting for the extreme right

Halla, Martin; Wagner, Alexander F.; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

-country correlation between the election success of ERW parties and immigration. Motivated by this evidence, we explore one potentially … important channel through which immigration may drive support for ERW parties: the presence of immigrants in the voters … features of the history of immigration into Austria to identify a causal effect of immigration on ERW voting results. We argue …

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Does Background Matter? The Transmission of Human Capital from a Planned to a Market Economy

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...

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